Tuesday, August 26, 2025.
For those of you who have been following along the old davidseah.com feed, you may have noticed that there hasn't been very much going on there. That's because I've largely shifted my writing to the new dsriseah.com site. This is where I've been posting my Groundhog Day Resolutions posts since 2022, but that's about it.
As I wrote in my past Groundhog Day Resolutions Report, August is my month of change due to a number of really significant life chapters closing.
The chapters have all taken 10+ years to close:
I now identify as "non-binary trans-feminine, but it's no big deal". I still prefer they/them pronouns and being addressed as "Sri".
(1) My sense of gender identity has stabilized, and I have stopped monthly therapy sessions.
It's been almost non-stop contracts since 2014, but the current U.S. administration has cut public National Science Foundation funding by half. It's likely to be at least three years before I see any of this work come back.
(2) My freelance contracts for Learning Science Javascript development have come to an end.
...aaaaaand
(3) I have finally dropped Wordpress as my blogging platform!!!
The reasons from dropping Wordpress are many, but the immediate issue is that the RSS feed is now offline. This is due to me converting the old site to static HTML so it's frozen in time. As an interim solution, I'll be replacing the old RSS feeds with a redirect to dsriseah.com's journal feed.
So if you're reading this...welcome!!!
This will serve as an interim solution until I figure out how to properly federate this blog into the ActivityPub and AT protocols, using either a Ghost 6.0I have yet to get Ghost working on due to idiosyncracies with self-hosting on the newly-upgraded server on Opalstack. installation or Echofeed.
Now that I have a working feed again, the plan is to start doing the stuff I stopped 10 years ago when I fell into Javascript development:
- new/updated productivity forms
- printed and digital tools
- experiments with learning, personal development, and productivity
There's quite a lot that has changed under the hood of these systems, with new emphasis on:
- neurodivergence
- community creation, governance, and sustainability
- the economics and culture of collaborative benefit organizations
That's it for now! This post hopefully works. I'll try spreading it on Echofeed; will appreciate any replies that show me it's working...thanks!
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