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Almost 9 years ago, an open source project was begun. It had one singular purpose... to make office life a bit more fun. Here's the for "clearbot" (which lovingly was renamed to Burn Bot)!

Last year, I started a renewed effort to use Obsidian and I've stuck with it - in fact, I haven't missed a day to get at least a short bullet journal post up. I've slowly been tweaking my templates, though. Recently, I added the option to include the weather forecast to my files.

Continuing in the habit of posting my books for the prior year, here is an overview of what I was able to read over the last year.

Testcontainers is a relatively new library that can help a lot with working with resources like databases by using containerization. From the website: "Testcontainers is an open source library for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, or just about anything that can run in a Docker container."

Over the last few years, I've been experimenting with some of the various note taking tools. I've used OneNote, Evernote, Notion, Obsidian and LogSeq. I've even installed Emacs to try Org Mode (multiple times!) and tried various Vim or NeoVim plugins! The tools that stuck the longest were probably OneNote, Obsidian and LogSeq.