Weeknotes 2025-W52
This being the last week of the year I'm not at work or doing any technical hobbies, so I don't have much that's relevant to this website.
But as mentioned in my 2025 pseudo-summary, I'm gearing up to resume weeknotes and blogging in 2026 and I'm getting my ducks lined up by looking at what needs to be done.
Taggregation™
I seldom have time on a Sunday to reflect properly in writing, so instead I make short, single-issue notes over the course of the week, tag them, and use an 11ty layout to compile them as sections of separate post.
When I came up with this process of aggregation by tags I coined the term "taggregation" and for better or for worse it's stuck with me, so I'm just going to lean into it.
Consulting my other blog where I implemented this in 11ty before, it looked very straightforward, and it is, basically: I made a new layout extending my standard post template and iterate over the the collection of posts to which I've added the required tag. If the year and week frontmatter properties match, it renders the post title as an h2 and the content beneath it.
It's a limitation of this approach that each note needs to be treated as a discrete semantic section of the final document. There's no provision for bumping nested subsection headings down another level when they're aggregated.
But here's the thing … that's OK! It militates for my note structure being flat and focused. It lets me connect chunks of content in different ways; right now I want to collect them with other notes written in the same week, but they can just as easily be collated by tags or combinations of tags and/or be connected by hyperlinks.
SCRUM - Jeff Sutherland
After only a couple of chapters, the main theme that I'm conscious of is the attitudinal emphasis.
I'm underlining sections like:
ENDEvery little while, stop what you're doing, review what you've done, and see if it's still what you should be doing and how you might do it better. It's a simple idea but executing it requires thought, introspection, honesty and discipline.