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"title": "I'm bad at taking breaks",
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"date": "2022-12-28T14:43:03-07:00",
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"type": "post"
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I've spent the majority of my holiday break working on my PC and software instead of relaxing. Here is a quick recap of what I've been up to.
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First is powerlinx, the static site generator that runs this site. I rewrote major parts of the program and finally gave it a cli. I'm gearing up to add some cool features, like tags and categories on posts. This website now generates Atom feeds for all directories in the site contents.
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I've pushed some updates to this site as well. Melon recently shared a post [Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters](https://melonking.net/melon.html?z=/frames/thoughts.html) that inspited me to revamp my links page. The description of each link appears when you hover your cursor over it, all done in CSS! Unfortunately this makes mobile accessibility a little worse, but I will work to make it better. I've also enabled webmentions! Combined with [brid.gy](https://brid.gy), responses from Mastodon will now show up under my post. Check out [webmentions.neocities.org](https://webmentions.neocities.org) to learn how to enable webmentions on Neocities.
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I also spent some time tinkering around with my Linux desktop environment. For the past few months, my PC has been running KDE with i3wm subbed in for Kwin. I really like using i3, tiling windows and the keyboard movement feels natural, though using it alongside KDE hasn't been without problems. Iterating on a configuration for i3 and polybar as I learn what I like and what pain points I encounter has been a really fun project.
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On one hand, getting to work on interesting projects is fun but on the other I fear that I'm "wasting" my break by not relaxing "enough" and I won't be fully refreshed and ready to work. I'm probably overthinking it, trying to optimize my downtime is silly and if I'm enjoying my time that's all that should count.
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