I've been doing some learning
December 2, 2025, 2:33 pm
I have been unemployed for over a year. It has not been a good time. Being unemployed this long is something that you dream about when you're employed. Except you dream about it as a vacation. You think you'll get all the work done that you never have time for. You think you'll try new things and go places.
And maybe if it had been a planned sabbatical, then you might have. But when you're let go, and you can't find work, it's pretty much a constant stream of depression and stress. You ebb in and out of wanting to try some days, and wanting to play games and eat ice cream and sleep until 2 the rest. It's very difficult to stay motivated when stress keeps adding up over and over without major relief.
Relief comes in small doses. Short days spent with friends without worrying about bigger things. Small victories when you learn something new and manage to apply it effectively.
I've been learning a lot about new and upcoming things in web development. There's a lot. I started learning about color systems and the new css color functions, and then color-scheme. I then started going over old webpages and beginning to design them back up from the ground.
While writing up this new Popover Tutorial on my tutsos site, I ended up starting to completely overhaul its style system. And then I started updating a lot of the php that runs things underneath. Adding in iframes seems like something I wouldn't have ever been able to effectively make happen in years past, but with a little agentic help, I managed to make some tools that are not only intuitive for myself, but make the site more useful than it ever was before.