A Wedding, Space Jam, and a Late-Night Rebrand
Wedding tech at noon, a full rebrand of the JPPS web presence in the afternoon, Space Jam with the kids at six, then back at it until well past midnight.
Yesterday started at Great Lakes Church a little before noon and didn't really end until I finally closed the laptop sometime after 1am. A wedding and a movie night got wedged in the middle of what turned into a full rebrand of the JPPS web presence.
Wedding tech at GLC
I got to the church around noon to get everything set up and ready to go — the wedding itself ran from 2:00 to 2:45. Lisa and I have been running sound and video at Great Lakes Church since the launch team days, so this is well-worn ground for us at this point.
Into the rebrand marathon
Once things were cleaned up after the wedding, Lisa and I headed over to GLC's NextGen building. I started what turned into a full rebrand of the JPPS web presence. Part of the point was cutting costs: jpps.us had been sitting on paid hosting, so I moved it — along with this site — onto our own self-hosted GitLab. Two more sites riding on servers we already run, no extra hosting bill.
While I was at it, jpps.us got a full rebuild with real content instead of a generic template, plus a page showing off software I've actually built. The store — store.jpps.us, where SRT Matrix licenses get sold — got restyled to match: dark slate and gold instead of plain browser defaults.
I'd been keeping separate copies of the logo in every repo, which is how you end up staring at a "wrong" logo that turns out to just be an old cached copy of the right one. So I pulled the logo, favicon, and colors out into their own shared spot at branding.jpps.us, and pointed the business site and the store both at it. Change the logo once, it updates everywhere.
Space Jam with GLC Kids
Movie night was at 6 — this round was GLC Kids' turn to watch Space Jam. Always good to see the tech we've built into that room over the years actually getting used for something like that.
Back home, back at it
After the movie wrapped up I headed home and picked the rebrand work right back up — that's how my email signature ended up a proper dark-branded card instead of a plain-text footer (dark slate, gold accent, the actual logo, since my branding has always been dark-mode first and the old signature never reflected that), and why I was still pushing changes well past midnight.