A good friend of mine and I agreed that we will both set up a blog during the Christmas holidays.

I decided to resurrect my old blog that I started - and then abandoned - in 2013. I had to look up my old posts, some of them I had to recover from The Wayback Machine because I haven’t kept a copy of them.

The recovery process was very nostalgic. My first post even mentions my past in online poker. There is this post where I describe my experience with Magento that I tried to learn in about a week to create a webshop for a local company. It was a terrible failure as I couldn’t deliever a single webpage in 3 weeks and the contractor got so upset with me he didn’t pick up the phone for a month. I had no idea about webshops or backend development. Or this one where I was just learning about C and was baffled by pointer arithmetic.

Anyways, a few years have passed and my professional interests changed a lot. I’ll be publishing some articles that I’ve been secretly drafting.

Here are the goals I hope to accomplish with this blog:

  • learn how to write quickly and concisely - posts that are actually enjoyable to read
  • keep a record of professional / personal events
  • motivate me to get a deeper understanding of things - deep enough so I can write about them
  • help me focus more on some technologies I find interesting