Time to Update Node

It's Friday evening

and I am home thinking about how I can improve my personal blog website and aiming for a good nights rest. Exciting times. I love how I can build tools that serve a personal use case such as building a website to process my thoughts and learn more about technology.

The articles I've written so far are mostly thought experiments about how I would plan and execute a technical project. I believe I enjoy this because I can experience possibilities without having to invest the time to actually required to see the end result. I go through the steps and place myself at the end of the projects timeline, imagine the potential problems, and reflect. This could be applied to running a business, planning a website, or cooking a meal.

Tonight I am going to try something different.

A new style of writing Im calling a technical reflection. (working title) Simply a journal of an experience building or solving a problem. Testing the idea below.

Technical Reflection - Friday Night Node Update

I am doing website maintenance on a few personal domains I have had hosted for some time. I would like to shut down one react project and move my next.js project under the react project's domain. Additionally the Nextx.js project has not been touched in about a year so updates and changes are inevitable.

I needed to transfer content on website 'A' to domain 'B' and take down the current content being served by domain B. I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of pain. Vercel made it easy to grab my DNS records and update in google domains.

I needed to update my computer's node version so that I could update the Next.js and subsequently start to use material UI. The joy of updates, always one thing leading to another. I want to use MUI's grid component and simplify my solution towards responsive screens.

Updating my node version and packages has never been something I look forward to. I was happy to find that using nvm to install the recommended version of node went smoothly.

The next task on my list is to create a resume page, about page, and post this blog.

This was a fun experiment. I feel I might continue the pattern.

Will