A colourful painting of a goat on a round canvas

I made this 😍

Excited for the first ever React Advanced Canada 2026 - gitnation.com/badges/react...

When the palette looks this good

#makeartnotwar

Also libraries go and buy a new book (physical book, ebook, audiobook) if I ask them to when I cannot find something in their collection!
Way better than unnecessary and exploitative piracy.

Thoughts on Financial independence and Retiring Early - secondbrainblog.com/2025/06/25/f...

a woman holding books on investing

Reflections on becoming risk aware and my risk tolerance in a volatile market.

secondbrainblog.com/2025/08/15/c...

Watercolour and colour pencils painting of green mountains with purple flowers and a small stream

Zoom out because close up it's a mess.

Wales is so beautiful in my memory. I used it to calm my brain for a little while.

All the rules are made up and I would like kind people to make the rules please.

Goes to bed at 11
Lights off by 11:30
Turns on phone
Tries to learn random thing at 1 am

#ADHD life

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.

Small purple flowers

Just summer things: some flowers growing in the tiles

... A money date begins with blocking time in my calendar to deal with, well, money. I enjoy doing it solo so I can be brutally kind about my finances ...

IPad lock screen with a cartoon pygmy hippo.

Equal parts excited and terrified about how much there is to learn and try on procreate.

My #art #digitalart journey on #procreate

I tried vibe coding, sort of.

Tariffs, Programmers and Everything

Learning about tariffs was not on my bingo card this week. However, here we are and I’m struggling to understand many aspects of it, the why and the weird frequency of change in particular. I saw a short video by Alberta Tech on Tariffs vs Programmers that made…

UK Pensions – An Overview with Actions Pension - two important things to note - it is your money and it is invested. A pension may be your biggest investment because the plan is to support oneself on it for 30-40 years. The government wants you to be able to do this and they help out with tax relief. Why does the government care? Well if we don't have a source of income in our old age, the government would have to support us in some way and that would be expensive for them.

UK Pensions – An Overview with Actions

Pension - two important things to note - it is your money and it is invested. A pension may be your biggest investment because the plan is to support oneself on it for 30-40 years. The government wants you to be able to do this and they help out with tax…

Screenshot of a blog page called Second Brain Blog with 5 post titles visible

Moving my personal finance blog from Wordpress to Hugo.
A longer post coming soon because there is so much I wish I knew 6 months ago when I started on wordpress (and developed a hate-love relationship, that went to hate-hate in the little duration)

#100DaysOfCode

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Would I recommend it? Not really...maybe. You’re better off reading a summary somewhere or watching a video on it. It’s an extremely well-marketed book, you can borrow it from your library or a friend if you’re interested. This review is my experience with the…

Watercolour painting of a Quad bike

The more companies push out AI images, the more drawn I am to be creative. Onto my third travel journal :)

Drawing page showing tulips with real tulips and multiple colours on the desk

A bit of colour for your timeline.

When to Invest and Why Dollar Cost Averaging Works for Most Investors The best time to buy shares is when stock prices are low and sell when they are high. But how am I supposed to know when that would happen? The people who work in finance can barely predict this. A search for “how accurate are market predictions by financial experts” has some interesting results about people and institutions being less than 50% accurate; that’s worse than a coin flip!)

When to Invest and Why Dollar Cost Averaging Works for Most Investors

The best time to buy shares is when stock prices are low and sell when they are high. But how am I supposed to know when that would happen? The people who work in finance can barely predict this. A search for “how accurate are…

Latest Book Club read - Rich AF by Vivian Tu talks about rich people's mindsets about money (and life) and how we can think like that to get richer, whether we come from a rich background or not. With the mindset, come detailed steps to get better with money.

Hey #JanuArty and #FebruArty , I saw some AWESOME landscapes these past few months! Feel free to join me in #MarchIntoLandscapes !

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Optional References for Artists: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9k593...

#art #artchallenge #promptlist #landscape #scape

Sunset with part of the aeroplane wing

Sunsets while on the plane can be 2-3 hour long shows and I love it!

How to Diversify Investments by Region and Sector We have been learning managing risks involved in investments by diversifying them. Feel free to revisit asset classes and size and investment style <-The other diversification options are sector and region. This post is mostly external links because I came across a lot of cool charts. Not great for mobile, best viewed on a bigger screen. Region This is an obvious one.

This post is mostly external links because I came across a lot of cool charts. Not great for mobile, best viewed on a bigger screen.

Love that!

Your cats seem very adventurous 😂
Also love the demo!

I asked it to filter out tech companies and it decided on a list of words in the company name to separate them like software, tech, data, cloud, solutions, systems, ai, etc. which is pretty clever with the info it had.

I tried making it work as an independent app and all I had to change was the CSS framework. Now I wouldn't have gone with the choice of displaying everything all at once without pagination (or even using react for it) because it is a big file and loading it in memory stressed out my computer :D

My aim today was to build something with instructions from Claude. It shook me with how it created a react component for displaying data.
#100DaysOfCode