# Week 1: A personal update on returning to Magenta and rebuilding a Jekyll site

DevFeed: [Week 1: A personal update on returning to Magenta and rebuilding a Jekyll site](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/week-1-35555.md>)

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Author: Monica Dinculescu

Published: 2021-01-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Monica Dinculescu](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/monica-dinculescu.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jekyll.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

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## AI overview

A personal weekly update about rebuilding a Jekyll site with roughly 40 GitHub commits, returning to Magenta after a fellowship with the Trevor Project, and leading a team that classified suicidal ideation. The author also discusses broth, television, Animal Crossing, and returning to piano.

## Source excerpt

I've been thinking for a while about setting this up, and this week seems as good as any. Both Alice and Frances have weekly updates that are a joy to read. Jenn has a live laugh blog. Maybe this is the year of long form tweets? I haven't touched my site in like 6+ months so when I tried to run jekyll locally it obviously didn't work, so what you're reading took like 40 commits on GitHub. In work news, I'm coming back to Magenta after 6 months of being a fellow with the Trevor project. I lead a team that worked on classifying suicidal ideation for one of their projects. The work was super interesting (though often sad), and in a shocking development i really enjoyed being a team lead. I think that even though I'm really good at writing actual code, I'm also good at herding cats and holding a lot of statuses and details in my head. I was worried at the beginning of the fellowship that TLs don't write any code and I would suddenly become a meeting chair, and even though I did have a ton of meetings, I also wrote a ton of code. I know it's weird to hear a woman assert things she's good at it. This is also a new thing I'm trying out. My notes, my rules! In personal news, I've gotten really into broth-as-a-savoury-afternoon tea. I used to make a lot of miso (and drink it out of a cup; this part is key), but to add some variety in my life, this week I started boiling a bunch of vegetables during meetings and making my own broth. Anything for variety in the apocalypse, amirite. Goldie moved in to my Animal Crossing island. I am exclusively watching serial killer shows right now (Des, I'll be gone in the dark, Ripper) which isn't exactly off brand but might be a little TOO on brand, you know? That's what I get for finishing Bridgerton in 2 days. For my birthday in November my mum got me some new books of piano sheet music, so I've started playing some piano again. Before I moved to America, I used to play every day and be actually good at it, but much like with everything e