POW Aden Jansen is recruited to go undercover in Gretia to wipe the slate clean. If he can succeedāand survive. Dunstan Park is on piracy patrol to track down the space-born arm of the uprising. Idina Chaudhary hopes to root out the insurgency on the ground. And Adenās sister, Solveig, discovers how the bank behind the rebellion is closer to her than she knew.
Descent by Marko Kloos
Background
So this is Book 4 of the Palladium Wars Series by Marko Kloos. I was a big fan of his Frontlines series of books, and this appears to be his next major series. What is different from my previous reads of his, is that where Frontlines and others focus on a primary person/group, The Palladium Wars is split between 4-5 āmainā characters and can become a bit disconcerting.
Finished reading System Collapse by Martha Wells. This is the 7th book of the Murderbot series (the first few as novellas), and I think this is the one that will end the series for me. Might have some Spoilers, Iāll try to warn you!
System Collapse by Martha Wells
Synopsis
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if thereās an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza canāt have the planet, theyāre sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.
I spent forever just scrolling through this site. It was amazing fun watching all the facts and details as you scoll up to the KĆ”rmĆ”n Line. Sites like this donāt get enough publicity but it really should. Just a fun time. Making sure my kids get to see it as well is a treat. You should spend time there as well.
Enjoy and let me know what you think as well. Catch me at Mastodon.
Colin Meloy of The Decemberist had ChatGPT write a song in his style. Itās an example of how a great artist can bring a terrible-to-mediocre song up to something pretty decent. #
Why is it that there are very few file based, git backed, content management systems (CMS) out there? I see all over people using Hugo, Gatsby, 11ty, Jeckyll, and more to run their static site. The common denominator on all of these? They prioritize the use of .md files and flat-file systems to house their content. Although most of these can operate by pulling remote data from an API, this wasnāt the primary function.
So, Iāve been able to work on my own recently. Due to people being out for Christmas and then many taking longer breaks than normal, I get to work on my own a bit. Thatās good and bad for me because I do need some external stimuli to keep me movingā¦yet Iāve also been able to hyperfocus on a couple things well.
To maintain that focus I tend to listen to a great deal of music. I have Spotify open and on repeat. So, I figure Iād share the songs I cannot get enough of right now. Enjoy.
Iām currently working to update my website. It is really fun to find things and rebuildā¦but thatās for a different post. Iāve found it pretty difficult to build the front-page content for this one though. My current page is full of me and my life, from showing tweets, links, television, and the like. I really like this type of lifestreaming approach, I even worked with this topic on the lifestreamblog website.
One issue I have is the shear quantity of information on the front page and the overwhelming presentation if provides. I love looking at it, but not sure anyone else really does. So in this rebuild I wanted to explore whatās out there to see if thereās some inspiration I can take in making a new site.
My son mentioned to me he wants a website. Iām all about that! I would love to offer him a place to call his own. But I donāt want to half-ass it. Growing up we had sites like GeoCities, Tripod, and others that allowed us complete freedom over the sites we made. And we had great tools to get us there. Where did all these tools go?
Aļ»æs I said, I didnāt want to skimp on him and get him something that extremely formulaic. Sure, I could fire up a WordPress bucket and give him the capability to build with that, but WordPress has become so bloated and so full of fluff itās not that easy anymore to get things looking like you want them to. There are great HTML templates out there to start from to give him something amazing to work with, but heās just starting out and understanding HTML, CSS, JS syntax in order to get the design he wants is a large uphill battle.
Nļ»æot 100% sure what I wanted to do with this site. Iāve let it languish for a couple years and not sure why. Just had other things that have gotten in the way. So maybe this year will be different. Maybe not.
What I want to try is just dumping some stuff on here. My original vision for the site was to spend a good amount of time writing something meaningful. Some serious thoughts about what I wanted to say. But I spent too much time editing those and therefore completely losing my drive to write. Thatās what Iām hoping to change this year.
