Magic Mundanity
🎄 RISE & RAGE, Agents of Chaos! 🎄
& Happy Holdaze! Buckle up!
The header photo for this blog is a picture of me (duh) at a tea party of my own creation in my festive jammies on a hot, humid, Florida Christmas morning circa 1990-something. If there was ever a photo that embodied me as a person, this is the one.
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On this episode of "My Favorite Thing I Saw on the Internet This Week" we have THE single most incredible explanation of mall Santas to ever exist. Taylor, you single-handedly saved Christmas Cheer in households around the tech community!
explaining to my daughter that there are many santa’s because they are “community managers” for the big santa 🎅
— taylor desseyn (@tdesseyn) December 11, 2025
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I made some pretty dope updates to the LTTO page that I shared on X and LinkedIn. I won't get technical about it here but if you want to know how its made, check it out.
Okay SO.
— Jordyn Wallace (@Jordynww) November 7, 2025
Now that the offspring is asleep, here is a little 🧵 with some updates to the Let's Take This Offline site.
Couple of major highlights:
1. @Ghost - what an incredible platform. The UI/UX is the bomb. The analytics are my fave but as an amateur dev, the fact that the…
If you read the post, then I will say I am a woman of my word! I never said they wouldn't include my commentary! So, let's start with some community Screams Into the Void:
🏆 Low-Stakes Wins:
"I made it through the week with my sanity." - Shawn
- Shawn, this IS a win and in this economy's climate, everyone agrees!
"I showed up at a local meetup. Led to me being persuaded to jump into an MCP Bootcamp competition." - Alex the Instigator @thedevalex on X
- PS - this guy drinks Pepsi.
"I. Landed. The. Big. One. :) 💸💸" - Anonymous
- First of all, this is a HUGE win. Second of all, hell yeah you did! Third of all, I wish this wasn't anonymous because I speak for the entire community when I say we are SO freakin happy for you!!!
😱 Scream It:
"I haven't done much of pythoning these past few days. So this is me raging violently and putting an end to my low days 😤💀" - Naz @nazanin_ashrafi on X
- I can confirm that my girl Naz has locked in and has been absolutely crushing it!
"[The best] Star Wars watch order: 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9" - ANONYMOUS
- Whoever wrote this CHOSE violence. I could write an entire blog post on how this is just UNTRUE. It's science. Made up by me.
✨Reminder: your screams into the void are heard and your secrets are safe with me and my personal discord server where are all opinions are delivered safely with love and care!✨
It's been a minute since I've been able to bring the fire into your inbox and since its getting REALLY cold outside I figured what better time than the present?! 🎁
(see what I did there?)
Anyway, it turns out I haven't lost my humor in the last year of our lord which WILL go down in history as the most chaotic year of my entire life. If anything, it's made me funnier. I mean I am literally on season 8 of 2025. Can you relate?
All jokes aside..
I'm about to get just insanely real with you guys on what 2025 has looked like for me. I say this with all of the raw vulnerability in the world that I can muster up.
In 2025 I:
- Bought a house, moved, sold that house, moved again
- Traveled a lot
- Learned even more
- Got a Divorce
- Cried a lot
- Laughed even more
- Met some of the most incredible people imaginable
- Hit career milestones I didn't think were possible
......and transparently, there is A LOT more I could add to that list but, in the spirit of the flow, I don't want to give a full-blown log of doom. I think at this point you get the idea!
The intention of this is not to trauma-dump on the world or give you the 2025 Mental-Health Wrapped that my therapist emailed me (kidding). The truth is, I can say all of the chaotic things that were not on my bingo card but we ALL have chaotic things. We ALL have struggled at some point this year. One cool thing about community is that we struggle together AND we win together. Which is kind of the point... The support is unmatched and for that I am forever grateful.
Where did all of this come from? I'll give you the lore. Imagine this: It was a Saturday morning, maybe 65º in North Texas, not a cloud in the sky. I was at the park with my son and my little teacup Schnauzer, Bonnie. The sun on my face, the cool brisk fall air... and there I am, chasing my kid, walking my dog, photosynthesizing, when out of the blue, I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude. I felt purely at-peace. Why is that significant? This was something that in the not-so-distant past, I wasn't sure that I would ever feel again. It was in that moment I realized, I don't appreciate the nothingness of life the way that I should.
In the quiet moments, I often catch myself bracing for impact; understanding that peace is fragile and will eventually fade as the inevitable chaos rushes back in. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. There’s a knowing that the stillness won’t last, and that fear creeps in before I’ve even had a chance to enjoy it. So instead of resting in the calm, I prepare for the next “thing” around the corner. Wheels spinning. Thoughts racing. Peace interrupted by anticipation.
When we take a minute and sit in the mundanity and actually breathe, we open up space for gratitude and peace to creep its way in. Even when we aren't expecting it.
And honestly, that space we create in the in-between?
That’s where we become human again.
Where we reconnect with the parts of ourselves we’ve ignored because life has been too loud for too long.
It’s where the healing sneaks in.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying go full on monk mode and stare at a tree until it gives you the answers you need (although I swear the trees know things). I'm just saying there is real magic in the moments of our lives that the world encourages us to rush past.
Not everything has to be a learning experience.
Not everything has to mean something.
Mundanity should be celebrated, not discouraged.
If all you did today was exist, that was enough. YOU were enough.
xx - Jordyn
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