Typing fast and blogging again

2024's been a crazy one and I haven't written one blog post! I spend plenty of time tinkering with this thing, I might as well use the Posts section every once in a while.

To help with that I've decided to use it and practic my typing.  I already type pretty fast, but I want to type really really fast, and the only way to do this is with practice.  Of course I'll need to build something for this, but today is just a test run.  I hit a 5 minute timer and I'm just going to type and type without really thinking. This is probably going to be terrible to read so I'm sure you'll see a bit of a better version but more for typos than actually proof-reading my work, second guessing things, and never hitting publish.  It's going to be an interesting test but it's working out nicely so far.  I guess it could still be a terrible read, sorry about that!

I did a practice test before this, so I'm a little warmed up. I guess I should do a test after every post so I can keep track of it on something official too.

The hardest part of this is going to be thinking of content while typing. I need to set some kind of outline or plan beforehand, then type, then finish the post and clean it up.

For now let me run through some of the recent website updates.  I've been adding Flux, which is the latest Livewire/Caleb project and it's been amazing.  I haven't fluxified the entire thing yet, but it's coming along nicely.  I can't wait to update the Toasts, notifications on here are pretty rough for now.

I've also added some Chatgpt tags. Both on an individual post as a disclaimer, as well as on the posts/category pages to quick view/hide them. They're pretty bad and I don't want them here. The plan is going to be to rewrite those as my typing tests, but use those as an outline, and slowly remove ChatGPT content all together.  

The alarm went off a bit ago, but I didn't want it to ruin my flow. I'll have to spend a few hours and build some completely pointless WPM counter directly into this. I'm using TinyMCE which already has a word counter in the bottom (currently at 410), and a timer with livewire is easy enough.  I guess I'll just add a "WPM in the first 5 minute" indicator or something and not do anything in the actual post just like this one.