It’s been way to long since I’ve consistently blogged. Years of working at Amazon made me cautious about what I publicly put out there on the interwebz. I have so many things on the backburner in my personal to-do log that I’ve just not found the time to get around to.
Read more...I have struggled with mental wellness most of my life. I think the first time I realized that I wasn’t like other kids must have been Kindergarten. I seemed to be more sensitive than other kids and was plagued with self-doubt. I also seemed to have stronger emotional swings, mostly towards anger and sadness. What I didn’t realize then is that other kids didn’t have the same chaos at home. I was different because my environment was different, and I adapted to survive it.
Read more...For the longest time I’ve wanted to build a proper website using all the fun JavaScript and CSS tricks that full-stack devs do (and that I’ve been jealous of). As a platform / systems / operations engineer, my speciality is in using code to build systems. Front-end design, UI and UX, accessibility, and so many more things are just not part of my day-to-day activities. I think tha they are all incredibly valuable, but my career is hard enough to keep up with technological changes happening in my own tech field, much less those happening in fields that are far outside of my speciality. So I gave it a shot and tried out Gatsby when I started to redesign this site.
Read more...Blogging is something that I’ve attempted and failed numerous times over the past years decades. My first attempt at my own webpage happened in High School in 1996 with an Angelfire site. Later I moved onto Geocities along with the post-AOL crowd. Next came Angelfire, then a dynamic DNS setup pointing to a page hosted in my dorm room at college. For most of the 00’s I was radio silent while overseas. When I finally got back to the states I tried to get back into it, first on Facebook, then running my own static site on Bluehost. For the past five years I’ve been hosting static sites on AWS, which is where we are today.