2025 - Week 1: Weekly Progress Update

<p><strong>What an End to the Year!</strong><br>As we kick off the the year, I've been making significant progress on some personal projects, which I'll share below:</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">jorgeiglesias.com</h2> <p>The latest update for this site is the launch of a fresh UI. While there's still a bit more work to do, the home page and blog are up and running. My next focus will be ensuring all my social links are properly integrated.</p> <p>One of the more challenging moments came when I was building a Next.js and Strapi v5 website. I hit a major roadblock with ESLint build issues, which proved difficult to resolve. Instead of staying stuck, I decided to pivot and spun up this WordPress site in just a few hours.</p> <p>Refreshing this site gave me a chance to enhance my WordPress skill set, and once that was done, I switched back to working on colliercomputers.com.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">colliercomputers.com</h2> <p>I was excited to dive back into colliercomputers.com, another WordPress-powered site. While I haven’t been focusing on the website itself, I’ve shifted my efforts to documenting the computers I’m working with and organizing benchmark data.</p> <p>Initially, I thought a spreadsheet would be sufficient for tracking benchmark tests. However, as I started creating a template, it became clear that a spreadsheet wouldn’t scale well for what I had in mind. Over the Christmas and New Year’s break, I decided to take a different approach and built a quick application, Benchie.io, to streamline the process of recording and managing benchmark results.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">benchie.io</h2> <p>Benchie.io is a user-friendly app I designed for enthusiasts, collectors, and tech-savvy individuals like myself 😉. It helps users document and track benchmark results effortlessly. Currently, users can log in, create entries for their computers, and add benchmark details from popular tools like CPU-Z and HWINFO32—with plans to support even more tools in the future.</p> <p>Whether you're testing the limits of cutting-edge systems or exploring the performance of vintage machines running Windows 95, 98, or XP, Benchie.io provides a centralized hub to store and organize your benchmark data.</p> <p>This personal project leverages the skills I honed while working with Next.js and Strapi 5, drawing on the lessons learned from developing my jorgeiglesias.com site (which I haven’t fully launched—yet).</p> <p>I’m excited to continue expanding Benchie.io by adding new features and enhancing its functionality in the future!</p> <p>That’s it for this week’s updates! With the Christmas and New Year holidays, I had some extra time off from work, which allowed me to dive into the Benchie.io project. Now that I’m back to my full-time job, I expect to spend a bit less time on personal projects, but I’m excited to continue making steady progress in the weeks ahead.</p>