Weeknotes: 2026-11
I’m writing this from a Starbucks currently as I’m out now with my partner. He’s doing something this morning, but later after that we’ll have brunch together someplace 😄
I figured while waiting for him, I’d put this together before I forget again 😛
It’s been a woozy this past… few weeks? I feel like this time around I’ve been going with the motions a bit too much rather than driving the reigns of where I’m supposed to go. But I guess that’s just life, it happens sometimes.
I kinda miss having the mental energy to do some other work—like with my personal projects that are now slowly accumulating dust—after work hours instead of just gaming all the time, but… right now, I’d rather be resting within Eorzea rather than facing code or the computer 😅
It’s only a few more weeks until FoFPH’s 2026 Q1 event too, and as long as that event reminder in my head exists, I won’t be able to fully rest until it finishes 😆 such is the life of someone who organizes events for the community :))
We’ve been doubling down a bit more with AI at work. It’s making me feel all kinds of things, things I’d like to gather into a post—I still have this specific issue / todo task in the back of my mind and I wanna resolve it so bad but I don’t know when I can do that yet—and I guess with the past weeknotes I’ve written, there are some sections where I touch a bit on my thoughts on AI usage as I keep getting reminded of it more and more. Ultimately, I am just tired of people making it seem like it’s way more than what it is capable of. I get innovations can seem hard to believe or be very outlandish, but I’d like to believe there’s a way to “hype” stuff up without delving into what would essentially be counted as “fiction” or “wishful thinking” for some of the things assumed for it to be capable of doing.1
I’ve already shared this with my lead, but I also want to set aside a section here for something I’ve reflected on recently and would like to work more towards:
I want to refresh my coding skills and work towards becoming an actual UX Engineer. Right now, I consider myself more as a “UX Designer who knows how to code” and I’ve been that ever since I started my career. But now that I see my teammate—who is a senior UX engineer—and know what she does, plus also seeing how other people can be UX engineers now and do the kind of work I’m personally interested in doing, I now want to do all I can to work towards this as a goal.
For a while I didn’t really have any serious career goals. I did want to keep honing my UX design skills, like still practicing knowing how to ask the right questions in the right settings (e.g. different questions to ask when facing stakeholders versus when critiquing design versus talking to customers) and being mindful of basic accessibility principles and best practices as I create my designs, but I feel like I keep reaching the “plateau” state faster in the past few roles I’ve had so far.
In my current role though, I do see a path where I could learn more things while on the job and actually have practical ways to apply the learnings. That’s a good thing to have so the knowledge we learn about doesn’t get stale and just stay in the “theoretical” or “nice to know” state.
I hope I get the support needed for this. I want to maximize the opportunities I have access to for as long as I can.
Okay, I don’t really have much more to share this week aside from: I did a lot of work, had a lot on my plate, and I continued on with FFXIV MSQ. I’m happy I got to put this together though.
Hopefully next time I can set aside a day to set up some CMS for my personal website so I could also do this while on mobile and not have to be on my laptop or my PC to push content to my site 😆
Footnotes
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That’s a very long run-on sentence. I do not care. I’m trying to be a bit more casual with how I do these things so I don’t feel too pressured to continuously write stuff for my personal website. ↩
