Devlog - Late March - looking for work and updates on projects

Here's a bit of an update/devlog on what I've been working on lately. Follow along if you want - I'll try to keep these coming to stay on track and 'build in public' as it were. This won't be entirely coherent but it's the first of a series, so let's just grip and rip it as they say.

Stuff I've Worked on in the Last Week:

Devlog - duh

Another blog post about the value of posting blog posts

An illustration for a new site, just a quick digital painting

Scaffolding a new Astro site for a small horror publication

been a while since I used Astro - forgot how polished it is!

Using atproto/lex for doc schemas so can publish on atproto later (if wanted) - nice to have a standard schema to work from!

custom theme for the same

Created a new GitHub organization and npm org for publishing some packages/repos under a more up-to-date handle - i.e. as '@jsutherland.dev'

Updated various profiles and my Bsky handle to use my domain: jsutherland.dev

Working with Standard.site docs for above mentioned Astro site and in general

Trying out Vite+

Working on standard.site web components (lit) library - more to come on that later - will be using Vite+ again - it's fun/easy

Found a bug in Leaflet! Mentioned on Bsky and was fixed within hours!? - nice!

Job applications - this is not so fun!

Going to attend atmosphere.conf! (remote)

Open to work by the way! - DM or email - happy to help with atproto stuff, or general web, especially testing and frontend

Personal:

Family/friend stuff - a lot of it this past week - old friends and family visiting MTL, good times! Got out of the house quite a bit and nice to see MTL from the POV of visitors

Probably some other things I've forgotten and some other projects are inbound/incubating like my handcoded (tm) idea but I'll update more on that later as well.

This post also serves as good a reminder/placeholder as any - writing is thinking and writing is a "force multiplier" (if I want to sound like the disgusting SecDef of USA). But digression aside, it's good to write and a formal issue tracker for dev/work of the kind I'm doing isn't friction-less enough.

As they say, the best notepad is the one you have.