Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-07-12
Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-07-12
Looking back at the week with an eye to the future.
The weekly coffee meetup series change of plans ran into tourist overflow and might come back in the Fall. Cru is right next door to The Vault and is also very busy for a Friday Coffee in July. Another lesson learned: If the event has coffee in the name… consider three alternative coffee houses.
https://www.facebook.com/p/Historic-Grounds-Coffee-Shop-100088196376743/
https://www.dancingbaristascafe.com
I think my events related travel is locked in through next year.
Raleigh Founded - NCSU in Raleigh July 17, 2024 for Summer Career Fair
AI Field Day 5 in Silicon Valley September 11-12, 2024 for Tech Field Day
Monktoberfest in Portland October 2-4, 2024
Cloud Field Day 21 in Silicon Valley October 23-24, 2024 for Tech Field Day
All Things Open in Raleigh October 27-29, 2024 for CLS
SXSW in Austin March 7 - 15, 2025
This week, I continued the Hot Fudge Daily digest posted in 🌶️ Spicy Edition Sunday as “free” weekly content.
https://hot.fudge.org/archive/spicy-edition-sunday-for-2024-07-07/
https://fudge.org/archive/run-fly-visualize/
Next month, fudge.org should have Google Adsense enabled which I last experimented with over a decade ago. However, for users browsing with ad blockers there won’t be one of those annoying “please turn off your ad blocker” messages.
I am still getting prepared for traffic to hot.fudge.org newsletter automated sponsorship management via Buttondown. I have another sponsor that will go live in August as well.
My original 11ty version and opinionated starter for fudge.org will be going through major revisions. 11ty is close to reaching 3.x and I’ve been fine with earlier releases but want to get the advantages of what 3.x brings.
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/milestone/40
Mastodon continues to be an interesting experiment and I think that LinkedIn might be worth continuing to publish to but not as a newsletter platform. I believe that my LinkedIn Newsletter(s) experimentation will be to drive traffic elsewhere which is contrary to LinkedIn goals of being a walled garden. 🤷♂️
With the eventual reclamation of fudge.org and cuthrell.com in my roadmap, I continue noodling on using qthrul.com aka QTHRUL CORP as a holding site for cuthrell.consulting and anchor for cuthrell.net and cuthrell.org.
