About 10 years ago I used to blog a lot - not about technology or programming, but about baking, actually. I still bake, though I haven’t written about it in years. During that time I learned a lot about baking (obviously), writing, and bit of general photography (gotta have those hot hot baking pics), but I eventually ran out of time to bake as frequently, and thus, writing as much about baking.

Since then, though I enjoy writing, I haven’t been able to re-launch my writing with any sort of consistency. Some of that was (and still is) imposter syndrome - as I’ve been intending to write more about technology and I’ve always had a a certain amount of imposter syndrome in that right - it’s tough being committed to publishing content you’re not 100% confident in (fun fact, though, which I just remembered: an old blog post I wrote about imposter syndrome helped me get the very best job I ever had so, that’s something to think about. Man, I wish I still had that somewhere…). But some of that is because I’ve been challenging myself to create my own website before starting to write.

I know that if I wanted to just blog about technology that there’s plenty of free and easy avenues to do so, but I wanted to challenge myself to build something all on my own. I thought that maybe if I took the time to do that I’d:

  1. Prove to myself that I’m serious enough about tech blogging that I’d actually start writing more than 2 posts in January before punking out.
  2. Give myself an initial source of material about which to blog.

In any case, that’s where this is all coming from. I’ve finally connected a domain name, hosting platform, and website framework into a cohesive place on the internet. Tally ho!

Elf “You did it!” GIF

I’m old - are gifs…cheugy? Is that what kids say now? My daughter isn’t old enough to explain new internet trends to me yet. Also, it’s impossible for me to care; the usage of gifs is ingrained in my DNA now and I will never stop.