Dev Log 03.25.2026: Grids, SASS, and a Sleeping Frenchie

Random Thoughts from a Restless Mind

Published On: March 25, 2026

The Technical: The day job has me deep in a Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce B2B implementation that's in full emergency mode. Most of my time right now is forensic — combing through the custom B2B grids they've built for POs, approvals, and the like, diagnosing broken SQL, and sorting out the sorting, filtering, and searching that's gone sideways. It's the kind of work that's more detective than developer. On the personal project side, I migrated my home page from a vanilla Bootstrap implementation over to SASS, which has been a long time coming. I'm also starting to seriously consider moving the whole site off Symfony and onto a dedicated blogging platform — something that lets me focus my actual coding energy on the projects I care about and just write here, without reinventing the wheel every time I want to add tags or comments. WordPress, Drupal, Joomla — the options are plentiful and the decision paralysis is real. For now, staying put.
The Atmosphere: Televators by The Mars Volta as the seed, then wherever YouTube Music took it from there. Good fuel for the kind of work where you need to stay focused but can't quite explain why the music helps.
The Coworker: Hubert is in full hibernation mode today — mostly napping in the bedroom, unbothered. He did get some backyard time though, which felt like a milestone. The snow is finally gone, temps nudging into the 50s, and he's out there slowly reestablishing dominion over his territory. We're all coming back to life a little.
The Rant: Dad is back in the hospital. He has cancer — several kinds, at this point — but his heart is too weak to tolerate treatment, so they're trying to stabilize that first before they can actually go after the disease. It's a bad situation. My parents aren't really telling people, so I don't have many outlets for it. I don't know. It's just heavy, and it's hard to shake, and some days it sits in the background of everything else. Today was one of those days.