Bootstrapping 2025
personal notes to kick off the year
all in all, 2024 was tough. now here's 2025, and it's said to be another challenge.
but I'm not waiting for the difficult bits to start — instead, I'm going after them.
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Your own social icons font, tailor-made
a front-end-friendly webfont way to include the ideal social media icons and dramatically develop your design
managing one's presence online these days is tricky. you gotta be everywhere: LinkedIn (obviously), X.com (with almost everybody), Bluesky (with everyone else), GitHub (just in case your CV catches some HR's eye) and so on. that's a lot to manage, and naturally you'll want a nifty personal website where all those profiles can be displayed.
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Birthday bug bashing
sometimes the simplest solution to a complex Drupal Views SQL query alter hook problem might be expressed in the corniest way possible
most people don't know that, but my first major was in Advertising. although that's a career path I never took, I've always enjoyed a good ad or slogan, like the epic Greatness awaits for the PlayStation or McCann-Erickson's classic Truth well told.
another thing I learned from Advertising — and Design! — is that there is no such thing as a bad cliché¹. to wit, It's Luco's birthday but you're getting the gift!
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