I was laid off from Block at the end of February and the reason provided by Jack was AI efficiencies were reshaping how work is done. Bummer. After sitting for a day or so with the existential dread of an AI dominated future, I decided that instead of sitting still and letting that future catch up to me, I needed to grab the bull by the horns and steer where my career is heading. ...
Well I’ve tried it before and the site languished in the forgotten corners of the internet after I lost interest. The domain lapsed. Its now an orphaned Wordpress instance participating in some botnet. I’ll eventually put the droplet out of its misery but thats for another day. The deployment toil for blogs has dropped considerably since the last time I gave it a go. I’m writing this in Obsidian which is backed by a local git repo. When I’m finished I’ll run a commit and push right here in Obsidian. The push sends it to a Github repo thats tied to Cloudflare Pages. After merge, the Cloudflare plugin runs the deployment to Pages. And we’re done. I could automate it more using the auto commit/push functionality in the Obsidian git plugin but we’ll get to that when I’m more confident in my ability to write coherently. ...