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      2 title: "2024, Day 1"
      3 date: 2024-12-01T11:41:52-08:00
      4 description: "Introducing my 2024 #DecemberAdventure"
      5 draft: false
      6 ---
      7 
      8 Last year I enjoyed doing a [December
      9 Adventure](https://eli.li/december-adventure), so I plan to do it again.
     10 
     11 My life feels a bit busier than it did a year ago. I have more
     12 responsibilities at my job now that I've been there over a year, and tending
     13 to the needs of my youngest child seems to take a bit more of my emotional
     14 energy. So instead of attempting anything challenging, I'm hoping to futz
     15 around with a few computer things. I don't know how many will even qualify
     16 as "programming" per se, but they're generally coding-adjacent. Some of my
     17 ideas:
     18 
     19 - Make improvements to my blog here, and how I author it
     20 - Figure out how to better do some things in (neo)vim
     21 - Automate a couple infrequent but tedious tasks
     22 
     23 I might play with new languages or paradigms (because it's fun), but that's
     24 not a high priority this month.
     25 
     26 E.g.: today I added [Open Graph](https://ogp.me/) metadata to my Hugo
     27 template so that my posts will look better on the Fediverse. I got most of
     28 what I needed from these posts:
     29 
     30 - [Mastodon and Open
     31   Graph](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/02/mastodon-and-open-graph/)
     32 - [Blog
     33   Previews](https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/05/08/Blog-Preview)
     34 
     35 I recently tweaked my pixel art favicon and I like the colors better, and my
     36 default card image is a larger version of that. In a later update I'd like
     37 to use post-specific previews, but this is a start.