Dispatches from Jon's timeline
Here are some pictures and videos that our amazing guide Pablo captured while he lead Pete and I up Chimborazo in November. Chimborazo is the highest volcano in Ecuador, and the closest point on Earth to the sun due to equatorial bulging. A six hour hike on my first glacier at 20,000 feet - it was the hardest thing I've ever done.
After deleting my Facebook account, I still wanted to have a way of making public, short-form, multimedia updates. I can easily display these posts right here on my personal website, but a great functionality of Facebook is in providing a seamless way to not only view but also create new posts. Therefore, in order to make this idea of posting on my own site something I'd actually do, I needed to fill in this missing "post creation" piece. Being a web developer, I knew one good solution was to use a content management system, referred to as a CMS. I tried a few of the leading CMS apps, but found they were either too bulky for this use case or didn't meet my editing requirements. I had a feeling that with a good agentic IDE (basically an AI-assisted app builder), I could make exactly what I wanted pretty quickly. Sure enough, two hours over the weekend and I had my own personally-tailored CMS using a powerful, rich-text editor that supports markdown. Now I can just go to this little micro-app, type in some stuff, upload some stuff, click publish, and it will automatically show up on my website. How neat is that?! The app is structured to be extensible too, so in the future I'll add an Article content type, and the ability for people to add comments.