I finished migrating my site from Jigsaw to Laravel. It took me a little while but I’m glad I did. Jigsaw is great for simple sites, especially if you don’t want to worry about managing a server to run that site, but the development experience is not that great.
I still have a lot I want to do to this site and having a backend will be necessary.
I’m almost done with my first week working at Wilber Group full-time. It has been going great so far and I’m learning a ton!
Picture of my dog Biscuit. Shot with a Sony a6300 with some minor edits.
Today, I spent several hours trying to get my Arduino NRF24L01+ transceivers to talk to each other. I eventually got it working… mostly. It works, but it’s unreliable. Maybe I should just buy some LoRaWAN radios and a gateway for my latest IoT project 🤔
I took this photo with my iPhone 13 mini during a walk on Wednesday.
Back in November of 2020, I made the upgrade from an older, custom built, desktop computer running Windows 10 to the new MacBook Pro M1. It was a massive upgrade and I’m SO glad I made the switch. Apple has done a phenomenal job with their new line-up of processors, but I have been dealing with one major problem that has been driving me crazy for the past year or so.
When my MacBook goes to sleep for a while and I come back, I’m greeted with the MacOS login screen with all of my open applications closed. I assumed it had crashed and restarted. After dealing with this for the past year or so, I finally decided to contacted Apple Support yesterday.
I just opened up my Mac to the login screen again and all of my open applications had been closed. Very frustrating. I check the Time since boot in System Information and I noticed it said it had been over a day since it booted up. Strange.
I started thinking, maybe it was not restarting but actually just logging me out of my user account. I did some research and figured out that there is an option in MacOS to have it automatically log out after a certain amout of time. And then it hit me, a security assistant app I had install a while ago had suggested that I enable that option. So I did. That is what has been causing my MacBook to seem like it has been crashing when it really hasn’t.
It was a user error and it’s fixed now. 😁
I went swimming this morning. I did swim team for a few years but the last time I swam was about three years ago. My form was horrible but at least a got some exercise.
I’m thinking about starting a podcast. I want to do weekly episodes talking about the development I’m doing each week. Of course, I would like to have frequent guests on too. Now to find a name 🤔
I pre-ordered the new PlayDate handheld console by Panic. I’m super excited about it and I’m looking forward to developing some games for it! I guess I need to learn the Lua language 😄
Now I just need to wait for 6-months to a year before I get it 😒
I have had one major problem with my website for the past month that I keep putting off fixing. And that is, I did not have a proper RSS feed until now. I finally sat down at my computer to fix it. Posts should now also be syndicating to Micro.blog.
Done with work for the week and I have off on Monday!
I learned so much more about Laravel this week. Mainly about:
I purchased an office chair off Facebook marketplace today. I got a great deal!