Coding in a blizzard

After a false spring in the last couple of weeks, March reared its head with a massive snowstorm. When it was all said and done, over a foot of snow had fallen. The roads were in terrible condition, and to be honest, I didn’t have much to do. It ended up being an excellent day to grab a warm beverage, a cozy couch, and my laptop to work on some programming projects.

My personal website, which you are reading, needed some library updates, performance enhancements, and some additional content. The upgrade to Astro 6.0 came with some breaking changes, but it worked well that I had recently moved from loading ripples from Astro.glob() to Content Collections. I also ended up needing to update my RSS feed, and upgrade to the latest version of TailwindCSS. There were also some breaking changes with Tailwind but I mainly just needed new syntax for some of the utility classes.

I added some additional items like a sitemap and robots.txt file to ensure my SEO was set up how I wanted. After that, since I had some creative energy left, I worked on a project for work where I created a dynamic, searchable HTML table from JSON data. I even make some frontend improvements on the Earth Hero website that I do volunteer development for.

Though the snow was flying down, it ended up being a very productive day and I learned a number of new things. I love winter and the snow, but the blizzard conditions were not safe for outdoor adventures. Warm weather is on the way and I look forward to balancing keeping up with my coding skills with being outside.