Entering 2026 and building again

As you might have noticed, things were very quiet around here in 2025. The reasons for that are many, but between losing my dad in April and integrating into a new company while juggling book writing and my diabetes, I did not have a lot of energy to focus on building the website. As I am almost done with the aftermath of handling my father's passing, I feel I am in a good place at work, and my book is coming along fine, so I am focusing on building this website again. While I always have big plans, I will focus on small changes this year rather than massive new projects.

Atlassian Section

I have been slowly playing around with the Atlassian section, and I will focus on this so I get a starting point for other things. In Short I am building information pages for the collections and the corresponding apps. I will focus on the collections and then the big apps Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and, of course, Assets. Rovo will also be there, as it has a lot of buzz at the moment, and I will probably add a section for Data Center due to the 2029 end date.

The purpose of these pages is to both act as landing pages to collect information from multiple sources of the website, but also as landing pages for SEO purposes to promote myself (and later others as well). The pages are not that difficult to create, but they require some design focus, and I have not felt that I have the inner peace to focus on such things for a while. Once I have this, I will finish the sections and start working with content for them.

Atlassian App Updates

I have opened up the Atlassian App updates again, and I will add the updates again. I stopped doing this as I did not feel it was worth my time to add the hundreds of updates, but now I will do it again. I do this both to make sure I am updated myself, but also because I see that there is a need for it in the community.

I am still testing out a few things, and I hope that I will be able to add a function so every member can add their Atlassian Home ID so they can find the release notes in their instance. I am using a custom profile field for this, which is proving to be less straightforward than I would like...

Overall, this database is working just fine, and I just might do some adjustments and improvements in 2026.

Videos

My videos section is already coming along fine. I am going to adjust some things and move over the remaining videos from YouTube, so I have a full set of all my videos here. For the Atlassian videos and the community videos, I will just finalize My Videos first, and then I will finalize those databases as well. I am also planning on making more videos in 2026, as I kind of lost traction in 2025 with all things going on.

All in all, the videos section is pretty much done, and I am just going to improve a few things in 2026.

Articles

The Articles section needs some changes because I want to separate this from blogs, which is a different category of content, as I see it. As a result, I will restructure this and move some content to blogs so the Articles section will be more professional and helpful. This will be a big task, and I need to consider how to do this so it makes sense content-wise.

Overall, the design and the code are where I want them, but I will add some functionality for views and split the content area that I have into other areas. I also want to see if I can add functionality for authorship for community-driven content to ensure that submitted articles provide value for the authors.

In 2025, I have also received several questions regarding purchasing Articles or to add links in existing articles from various SEO companies. If I add that as a possibility, I need to add some functions to mark articles as sponsored. I also need to figure out how this will work for community Articles since any income from their articles obviously should go to them. I will dig into the E-commerce aspect of this in 2026 and see what can be done.

Stories

For Stories, I might invest a bit to get help to build this as the Digg-like service I was initially planning on building. For now, I will just let it sit the way it is, with a few tweaks to add the new Views feature that I built for the Atlassian App Updates database. To build this, I might dig into the Invision Community plugin features to see what can be done, but we will see...

About Me

This section will be rebuilt in 2026, and I have several changes planned. The first change is that I will rebuild the My Work section, as it was built from a CV perspective, and I have a different approach in mind. At the moment, it is a bit cluttered, and having employment, projects, and other things in one database is not exactly optimal. So I will rebuild this section and also update the information. For this database, I will also rebuild and restructure the People database that is connected because it currently clashes with a larger people project.

For My Roles, I am considering changing things to better fit not just roles, but expertise in general. I am going to present my competence and expertise in more detail as people sometimes get surprised that I know more than they thought. I will also add some videos for this, I think.

If time permits...

Depending on how much time I have in 2026, it would be fun to build a people section and a job section. Nothing super fancy, but a nice way to present great people and a place where people can post if they are looking for work, or want to employ someone. I do get a ton of people asking me for references, connections, and so on, so why not take that to the next level?

I already have the Awesome People database, so I could just expand on that and see what I can build.

I have also toyed with the idea of doing some things with APIs. For example, I would like to see if I can build a website front for tickets to Jira Service Management so people can submit tickets. It would also be fun to see if I can get tickets from Jira Service Management as well to present on the website.

We'll see what time permits in 2026.

That is pretty much it.

Not as much as I usually plan, but my main focus this year will be to finish my book and a few other things outside of the website.