Public Service Announcement

I do a lot of things that are ultimately meaningless but make me feel good. One of these things is getting good bread instead of the supermarket stuff. This means getting bread from bakeries and cafes near us instead of the Dempsters and Villagio. However, due to the convergence of a series of procrastinations I found that we were at home this week with no bread available. Reluctantly, I walked over to the No Frills to get something to tide us over and I brought home this bag of Dimpflmeier. ...

April 10, 2025 · 213 words · Omar

Initial Commit

This website has been through so much. Once upon a time it was all hand coded HTML, CSS, and JS. As I built that out, I essentially built out my own little framework to get things done effectively. That was fun but also pretty inefficient (and tedious) after a while. Then it became an over-engineered Next/React SSR thing because I kind of just wanted to try out the hot new stack. Personally, I enjoyed very little about brushing up on React after not having used it for some time. ...

February 22, 2025 · 317 words · Omar