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I've been trying to get a more foundational knowledge in areas that interest me, namely spaceflight and paleontology. For a long time now I've been casually interested in both, keeping an eye on major new developments and watching YouTube videos from time to time, but I never felt like I could really put the things I was learning into context.

It's been a while since school so progress is slow as I'm having to relearn how to actively learn, but it's already been super rewarding. I've been making my way through a couple textbooks and have signed up for a course online. Even just memorizing the geologic time scale has made pop paleontology videos feel less like disconnected factoids, like I'm actually building a knowledge base.

I've also decided to condense various web-related projects into one big full stack project with its own protocol, client, server, dns and so on. Basically my idea of what the world wide web should be. I get easily distracted and have multiple web servers, templating engines and so on littered in my wake from when I run into something I don't like and want to do it better.

I know I'll probably never finish it, and even if I do it probably won't be very good. But it makes it a lot easier to stay focused on other projects when they hit a roadblock, since instead of being tempted to remake whatever is causing the problem from scratch I can just make a note for how I think it should be done in my little stack when I get to it.

Plus, yknow, it's fun.