As of late I’ve been doing a lot of work with GitHub Actions, so in an attempt to minimize the number of technologies I’m using in my side projects I’ve converted this blog to using them for its build and deploy process. Overall, the experience was painless; the only hiccups were things not directly related to GitHub Actions (like forgetting to set the default region for the AWS CLI). The steps were:

Time for a confession: I’ve drifted back into some bad habits of mine around media consumption. I’ve been browsing the web and watching YouTube videos when I should be writing, coding, or spending focused time with those I love.

This last week I spent almost 28 hours on Firefox between my phone, iPad, and laptop (the 9 or so hours on my tablet and phone are most concerning). That’s almost two-thirds of a full work week! I’ve also spent 11 hours on Slack and 1.5 hours on YouTube. Add those up and it really is a full work week’s worth of time. That’s a sobering thought to say the least.

Another week done in my digital declutter experiment! This time I decided to just post a weekly update, because frankly it was taking up too much time doing the daily updates. With all of the craziness going on in the world, I wanted to prioritize spending time with my family outside of work hours, rather than on compiling statistics of my technology usage (which ironically lead to more usage).

What went well?

This week saw a marked drop in my phone usage!