On this day every year I usually sit down to reflect on the events and achievements of the year, but since 2017 I’ve not published those thoughts, mostly because I usually spend the last day of the year with my family. But this year I decided to try to resume my end-of-year posts here, but as a quick rundown instead. In short, while this year was full of signficant events, overall I’ve felt that things were pretty stagnant personally and professionally.

Quick update: I’ve stood up a new, mildly snarky humor site: isthisbugfixed.com

Recently I’ve been watching the increasing rate of advancement in generative AI with a mixture of amazement and anxiety. I won’t get into the debates about whether it deserves to exist and its impact on the planet and humanity, or whether or not its adoption into nearly everything attached to the Internet is warranted as I feel there are plenty of arguments on both sides about it out there in other corners of the Internet written by people who can treat the subject with more finesse than I would be capable, but I do feel that the rate of advancement can be problematic as culturally we have not adjusted to combat its exploitation in social engineering attacks.

In my last post I had mentioned that I wanted to update this website’s theme, and admittedly that task had been put on the back-burner for quite a while. I had previously looked at different themes for Jekyll and come across Hydejack and had really liked it. Unfortunately, at the time, migrating to it would have taken a long time and I really didn’t have a lot of time to expend on it.

Yes, I’m still around, though I’m less active here than I used to be. As I get older, I realize how the time I have in a day needs to be divided and I have to prioritize. I have desired to come back to the world of blogging, and have recently been researching ways to update this site. Some things that I have been planning: