January 2026

Week ending 4th January 2026

Back to reality after the excesses of the christmas and New Year period. Throughout the month, had the kind of weather that is not conducive to leaving the house.

• Over the course of a day, I designed and put together a single-page website for a friend and fellow Bitcoiner, who has a novel idea for a new electoral process, named Valuarchy. A single page site to download the explainer PDF and epub. Built in 11ty, with an embedded blink Bitcoin donation widget. Hopefully I'll get the opportunity to build on this further. — Valuarchy
• Migrated Bitcoin Truthbombs from a WordPress instance to a static site using 11ty and hosted on Netlify. Used a plugin called WordDown to export the posts to markdown files. Had to get to grips with nunjucks which I found a bit of a challenge. The syntax is unfamiliar. Codex helped me out greatly for repetitive tasks.
• Looked for some opportunities at Bitcoin companies, sent off an application.
• Learned about Declarative vs Imperative programming.
• Discovered this cool desktop app for playing with JS - RunJS
• Introduced myself on the Bitcoin design community on Discord, sat on the call with Mat Balez about the communities initiatives for 2026
• Further iteration of my mobile screenshot viewer component, as can be seen here
• Clearing out checklist of mundane personal admin tasks
• Similarly clearing out the rain soaked, wind battered chaos of our balcony. Piling up the twisted wreckage of the fake bamboo fence into a pile.