Frankly, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to make this another one of my “Shorts”. All I know is that I have things I wanted to say/share, and this is a chance for me to open up about what I’ve been feeling & thinking about.

I’m sorry if I haven’t been posting as frequently or regularly as I had intended. Things have gotten more challenging in recent weeks and I guess I’m just trying my best to stay focused, keeping my head down while I work to find a solution to my current circumstances.

After my most recent decision to let go of my laptop, I’ve been trying my best to maintain a positive attitude towards everything that I’m currently facing. I still believe that our attitude is the single most important thing we can control, even when the odds have been stacked against us.

That said, I’m not going to pretend like the decision didn’t affect me. It did. In fact, subconsciously, it must have affected me more than I realized. And yet somehow, I’m doing all I can to push through it.

Making the Most of It

There had been moments where I felt the urge to dwell on what I had lost, and not what I still have right now. So, I would resist that urge as best I can. I’ve been reminded that the best way for me to keep a positive attitude in the facing of certain odds, is to exercise/practice gratitude. As you may have read before in my past postings, I believe that genuine gratitude & appreciation is an action. That means taking what I still have now and finding ways to make the most of them.

As a front-end development specialist, I’m also grateful that with my skills and domain, I can continue to do my work, research & development even if I don’t have an actual laptop to work from. It’s not the end of the world for me. When I’m out and about, I can turn my 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 into a portable machine that still runs a decent Ubuntu 24.10 desktop. And if I need to perform more heavy duty tasks like UX prototyping & design stuff, I still have a gaming PC at home for that.

On top of that, I’m glad that there is a platform called CodeSandbox. It’s a platform that allows developers to do their development work in the cloud. The one thing I appreciate about this platform is that it doesn’t require as much local processing power (since the project can run inside of a microVM).

I’m truly glad that even though things aren’t ideal right now, they are (in a way) better than where I was a year ago at this exact time. And I will continue to focus on doing everything that I can to make the best of my current circumstances while I look forward to better times ahead.