I may not have gotten as much done on bookshelves.dev as I wanted to over the summer, but that is because I was busy buying a home, moving (again), hosting plenty of guests, and taking on a LOT of yard and garden work, for starters. So the “time off” from being a full-time parent to a 2-year-old disappeared before I knew it.

What did I do?

  • A lot of testing with and evaluation of Git-based and API-based headless CMS integration.
  • Made nontrivial improvements to scraping and API handling (not all of that is shipped)
  • Cleaned up and expanded shelf and book display via shortcode
  • Added micro.blog json import

It was nice to mark some of these as done when updating the project’s readme file just now. It just doesn’t sound like a lot. Again: busy. But also, I had some very helpful and exciting conversations with some people interested in this project, and in offering me opportunities related to that.

Good things that will happen if I can just keep carving out some time to work on this. Putting some fun tasks at the top of the project’s feature backlog got me excited for upcoming work. However, I am also mindful that one of the rationales for this whole endeavor is to help me read more, so I hope to use the system a bit more regularly as well. I have ideas on that front as well.