5 posts tagged with "life-updates"

Another year, another blog post reflecting on it. This one has been a rollercoaster. I started these reflection posts in 2022 and I can with confidence say that this year is the lowest of lows so far, while also having some highs in terms of what I've been working on.

I'll start with all of the major updates to the projects I've been working on this year as well as looking forward a bit to the plans I have for various projects next year. I'll end the post with personal updates, that bit is largely for myself as I've talked about in previous reflection posts, but feel free to read it regardless.

This post was mirrored from my Patreon. TL;DR: Blog posts will still be freely available on this blog but I will likely start doing monthly update posts on the Patreon. Only this initial announcement was mirrored.

Housekeeping/TL;DR​

Hello again! Earlier this month I sent out a message to all (somehow still) active members that the Patreon had a chance of being reactivated and clearly I've come to a decision, if you're curious why etc, keep on reading, if not; if you are still subscribed to the Patreon and are willing to support me again, you will likely have to reselect a membership tier.

I'm hoping existing members won't get automatically charged again (would be weird after years of inactivity and me removing all old tiers), if you do I apologize and do not blame you for canceling.

With that out of the way, here's something I wrote up about reactivating the Patreon...

I've been writing one of these posts every year, so why not keep the tradition going? Even if only for myself, reflecting is a good thing to do every now and then. A lot happened this year, but at the same time also not much. Time to look back, review and look forward to 2025.

This is an import of the Reflection (2023) post I made on Google Docs for archival purposes.

1 year ago in December 2022, after collecting input on Twitter I posted this to reflect on changes I had gone through up to that year around datamining as well as to some of the reasoning why I made the changes I did. It was very therapeutic to write at the time so why not write a sequel? A lot of this is as a continuation of what I wrote last year, so you might want to read through that to get an idea of where I was at the time.

This is an import of the Reflection (2022) post I made on Google Docs for archival purposes.

I wrote this document primarily for myself to reflect on the time I've spent working on WoW things by walking through them (or most of them) and my decision on throwing in the towel when it comes to public datamining and actively maintaining and supporting WoW.tools. I ran a Twitter poll to see if people cared to see this document/properly write it out and 89% of 128 people wanted to, so here it is. I might still add things/change/clarify stuff over time, but I wanted to get this out before the end of the year. If I do update things I'll be sure to mention what/where.