blog - lesser daemon

18

Sep

100 Days, Day 7: Week 1 Reflections

I am beginning to realize that a significant portion of what I want to do with this hundred days project is to become a more organized person, publicly, online. This may not be the best way to go about it.

The reality of the situation is that I'm trying to blend infrastructural improvements with a daily creative practice, and I can't really do both at the same time. I'm building the boat while I'm sailing it.

That recognition has made things feel a bit overwhelming. On days where I don't have several hours to work on things, I've defaulted to

If You Want To Build A Website, First You Must Build A Router

Once again, I have fallen into the trap of "why pay $5 to do something easily when I can try to do it myself, end up spending $50, and fail anyway?"

I discovered late last night that yesterday's work was for naught. It appears that my Raspberry Pi server can only be accessed from my local network because of, uh, firewalls or something?

As far as I can tell, everything at the server level works fine, so something at the router level is blocking external networks. And after a lot of Googling,

100 Days Of "Website", Day 1

Like most people, I have a lot of ideas and not enough follow-through. For most of my life I've struggled with turning thought into action.

Earlier this year, I did 100 days of threejs. It was, to date, the most consistently I've ever done anything. It taught me the value of a daily practice: of forcing yourself, no matter what happens, to Just Do It. Turning ideas into reality, at least for me, is something that can only be done through consistent action.

Since then, though I've been eager to start a new hundred days project,