Introducing My Blog
21 Aug 2021Welcome to my blog!
This is a place where I am sharing my notes and progress on a number of different projects that I have on the go. In all honesty, it exists primarily so I remember what I did and I can refer back to when needed. But if you are here and this is useful to you, then that is great!
Why did you bother?
Good question, thanks for asking. I like a challenge and I like learning even more. There are a (literal) million ways to get a simple blog online, but I wanted to develop a place where I can learn new skills and have fun learning at the same time.
I’m a web developer who likes to get involved in the tech side of things too. You can expect to see many web based projects, but also a lot of hardware based ones too. I’ve started dabbling in electronics, so expect more posts about that. I’m also currently building various garden buildings and features, so that will probably feature on here too. Basically, anything that I’m working on that may prove useful to someone else, I’ll probably post on here.
I’ve used the Internet to pretty much self-teach myself everything I know. It will be nice to give as much of that knowledge back to future generations of builders and makers.
What is coming next?
The first series of posts will be a detailed rundown of how this site was built, where it is hosted (SPOILER: it’s self hosted on a rather awesome Raspberry Pi cluster) and the challenges I faced in getting it up and running.
The chances are that when you are reading this, you are being served this very post from a shelf in my office, in which I am probably working away building a website for a client (or working on one of the many ongoing projects that I seem to be amassing).
I think that is pretty awesome.
Take a look at the about page for more information about the site and the technology used to bring this article to the world.
Thanks for reading, please feel free to get in touch!