fine... I'll vibe code with y'all. tonight it made sense to make a tool for myself.. if you use #joplin or #jekyll or #syncthing this might be of interest to you https://itsrealfake.github.io/2026/01/23/i-made-a-joplin-jekyll-importer.html

tfw you spend months trying to support a friend of 20 years, then make a misstep and you're characterized as Completely Evil. ugh

GM. I lost my API keys... damn that feels like a loser behavior. literally, losing things. whoops. fortunately, it's just embarrassment, and not genuinely destructive or risky. pretty sure they were auto-deleted. that'll teach me to rely on Signal as a datastore

gm... from the bday celebration (not mine)

gm its almost time to check into the spa

Asked the other (more experienced) contractor at the day-job what steps I might take to raise my rates. We'll see how it goes. If you've got advice for a contracted software engineer, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Obv, happy to zap high quality info. Thanks in advance.