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24Q4 Winter solstice

Updates this season

Happy Fall equinox, here is what I’ve been up to last season

We had a really busy and fun quarter at CommunityScale wrapping up existing projects
Published the open source dashboards for planning projects
Got a used espresso maker from a friend
Watched a lot of Olympics
Sailed around Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound
Biked to the Cape Cod National Seashore via the Ptown ferry with friends and family
Hosted four sets of bicycle tourists
DJed a few times, including a new brewery
Built a dolly for a second hand Laser sailboat for the beach
Turned forty and had a big party (turning forty also came with a string of small but annoying injuries, time to start being more careful)

DJ at Porchfest and Portico Brewing, started playing with Ableton
Found a new frisbee summer league team with cool team mates and kids on the sideline, also played a goaltimate league
Saw the total eclipse in Burlington, VT
Three different cabins and hiking in NH

CommunityScale is going very well, we have a backlog of great projects to work on with great clients.
Zoning is becoming a bigger part of my work, with complete rezoning projects ongoing in Lynn, Everett, and Melrose.
I went out on little adventures most Saturdays with the family, including walks in Lynn, Gloucester, Winchester, and Concord.
I got to do some winter surfing on the Cape (5/4 wetsuit with gloves and booties) and some skiing up north.
I've been DJing monthly at Portico Brewing in Somerville with some friends.

Starting a hand-coded RSS as a kind of changelog for this static website.
Logged off Twitter (at least until its managed better), still looking for a replacement, or accepting that not every thought has to be microblogged, and that it was always a distraction? Anyway a season for change. I like the idea of ActivityPub but am not convinced that any of the Mastodon instances that I've seen will actually be up and running in 20 years, whereas this static HTML could be around for quite a while. I also pulled my Twitter archive into HTML, including forking this Twitter Parser to reverse the results and put it all in one file.
Forked Jeff Kauffman’s Apartment Prices to analyze some other areas.
Getting more serious about this website thing. Moved nels.city from GitHub Pages because its a public repo to a private repo and Cloudflare pages. So far so good. Allows me to keep working files on here without it being as exposed.
Started archiving fun projects at wetland.io