Advent Notes 2025
Some cool people do a December Adventure, of which my favourite is always Devine’s, as looking at uxn/varvara is always a mind-expanding trip.
I am way too Dad and way too Church to code every day in December! But I have impressed myself this year by making doing a lot of fun personal project stuff. Having annual leave to use up in December and using a few as personal days did help!
This Blog
Finally moved this repo to stegriff/stegriff.co.uk so that I can create a stegriff/stegriff and make it public to do a neat front page on my GitHub profile (TBD).
I really am torn about making this repo public. I’d like to. But I do prefer that the current view of my information be the only public one, so people can’t go dumpster diving for personal details I’ve changed and redacted…
Re-did the front page with an About me section, About this site/Colophon, and some stickers that link out to topic pages. To support the amount of body text, I also tweaked the colour of the background texture. Accessibility, man.
Published more topic pages.
Added a blogroll.
Added the AI policy.
Improved the footer - amazing how much that simple change makes this feel more like a real website’s website??
I have blown away my wildest expectations of how much I could blog this year, more than doubling the goal of 12, with 28 posts so far, the most since 2019.
Satisfying 📈
SG16
I vibe coded a thing I designed last Christmas and thought I would never implement. Thanks Santa Claude!
Repo is here… maybe a blog post incoming.
UnoWowApp
I entered a hackathon and did not win.
Vital Context
Being a volunteer leader in a very small local church means that December entails planning and delivering about half of the stuff that is Christmas at Canning Road 2025 including but not limited to choosing, practicing, and performing a setlist of eleven songs for a Carol Service, doing two preaches, and leading music worship on three occasions.
Although it’s a lot of work, it’s rewarding. And anything I can get done on my personal time over and above that feels like a huge win.
Happy Days
I have loads of time off this Christmas and I’m excited to see family from near and far, and hopefully get some time to tinker! This is the first Christmas that Frog will understand and both kids are very excited.
God rest ye merry, netizens 🎄