Reboot
Welcome to my new blog. I have been blogging for nearly 20 years, and I decided it’s time for a fresh start. I have been working on replacing the tool, Hexo, that I have been using to manage my blog for several months. After trying several different tools, I finally settled on Emanote as the source for this blog. I have also been involved in a large amount of yak shaving, which has culminated not just replacing the tooling, but replacing my hosting providers too. Maybe I’ll write a post about that whole journey in the future.
My goals with this iteration of my blog is two-fold. First, I want to get back into the habit of keeping a weekly journal to document what I have found interesting during the previous week. Second, I want to start a digital garden where I can maintain articles that will get updated over time as I learn more about the subject. I will likely post some longer articles into the main blog feed for one-off topics too. I will also be changing the focus of this blog to align less with my professional interests and to align more with my personal interests. Over this past year I have (finally) embraced my role in engineering management. I still want to keep some of my technical skills sharp, but the opportunities to do that at work will be few. Instead I will do that through my personal projects and document those projects here. I’ll still write about topics like DevOps and technology, but from in the context of my personal use and home lab instead of what I am doing professionally.
Originally I was planning to migrate all of my existing content, but after running into several problems with that plan, and having the realization a lot of older content is outdated and useless I have decided to start with a clean slate. I will most likely migrate some of my existing content, but older articles covering subjects like .NET and BizTalk will be left behind. It has been almost seven years since I worked in that space, and I feel like leaving that content behind is the right decision. I have created a 301 redirect for the ATOM feed, so feed readers should automatically update the subscription to the feed URL.
This blog is an experiment and will continue to change over time as I figure out what works and what doesn’t. I am excited to see how this evolves. With that, thanks for reading and I should resume regular updates next week.
