Being a programmer and generally someone who spends a great deal of their time on the web, blogs have been an ideal source of interest and knowledge. Like many others in my industry, I’ve been wanting to say I have a blog for.. alwhile. I could go back as far as school days dabbling in HTML and CSS usually lent itself to creating a blog site of some kind. I would try different hosts beginning with Geocities, then Angelfire and find myself looking further into Client/Server Architecture with the inevitable Wordpress. Initially I wanted to blog, but the real attraction was to delve into the technologies. As a result, no blog made it any further than a couple initial statements about my fancy new blog. Decades later many kinds of newfangled ways to make your own blog has arisen to make it even easier and I still don’t have a blog I can present. Here is another attempt.

This time I have cleared all of my reminders and scheduled tasks to ‘Begin the blog’, or ‘write post on..’, and didn’t allow myself to fork my attention to deciding blogging frameworks, or how I could easily publish from Emacs Org Mode, or which languages I could build and future rewrite a blogging application in. Yes, this was my spare time we’re talking about, and when considering a blog the implementation details always seemed to nudge ahead, in my time I could play around if I wanted to. This always lead to not having a blog of course.

Where to from here? A bit like going to the gym I’m just getting on with it. I’m picking up from my last attempt using Github Pages which had been sitting idle for 5 years, without a post that I allowed to remain. I have a mounting pile of posts to write and complete. It has become a habit to take chunks of daily notes of ideas and thoughts, with the intention that some day the bits will form a helpful passage in a blog, the only thing was that they didn’t budge from their scribbly note form into a blog all by themselves. Many of my initial posts will be picked off the pile as I see fit, touched up into that something that makes sense to others, and posted with a gentle sigh of relief. This will mean a number of different type of posts being published some short, some long, some introspective, surely some technical and hopefully helpful, some perhaps a bit of a ramble but I’ll be happy about the process of learning through writing.

Thank you kindly for your interest in reading thus far, hopefully you find it beneficial and please reach out to me if you have would like to say something nice or to find out more.