This month was a lot of tinkering with a few different projects, from themes to project management, and really getting the LLM bots to generate tutorials on things I am thinking of building. Not the entire thing, but little parts to see if I am on the right track. I also wasn't that good at doing a daily log, but I tried to work on something and commit something every day.

Before looking more at what I did, I am using a new Markdown editor, and it is way better to work in. Not to mention, Grammarly is helping me rather than being confused.

Early in the month, I worked on figuring out Pop Corn Marketplace, a multi-tenant e-commerce store focusing on a maker, homestead, and small batch group of shops. I also ended up doing more theme work and how to have a set of theme colors that the user can just select to change the look of the shop with no extra work.

I also rebuilt my IT Services website and my Software Development Services website with some help from LLMs. I needed something cleaner and modern, yet quick and easy. However, my IT Services site was an ever-breaking WordPress site, and I felt bad for ever setting it up that way.

I was also considering creating a Blazor Component Library, but I think we have enough component libraries for now.

Microsoft Build developer conference and Google's developer conference took place. I did pay attention to a lot of the new things Microsoft is doing with Blazor, C#, SQL, and Windows. However, they were relentlessly discussing "agentic apps" or using LLMs to perform tasks within other apps, development environments, or replacing search. Google also announced new models for video creation. Also, OpenAI and Anthropic dropped new LLMs, so I spent time seeing how some of those could be used.

Then I worked on my Daybook app idea, a desktop app for creating a daily personal log of things you did and storing it as Markdown files on your computer. This would also let you create a daily template that gets prepopulated based on the fields you configure.

And then it was back to the Project Manager, I want to build.

So, lots of tinkering, but not a lot of notable progress; I'm keeping at it. I do think I need to buckle down and get PopCorn Press to a usable state and start using it. Then, get the project manager out, and then attend to other matters. I should also get the latest YOCA running on the server with all the additions and fixes, more on the admin side of things, because this new Toast UI Editor is working out great in debug.