13 years on the web, 9 years into the "blog" epoch, 7+ years as a professional web developer, and I've finally created my first blog post. I don't do "technology for technology's sake", and I've never felt that I had a real *reason* to have a blog.
But... in my work as a web developer, I'm always looking for new tools, methods, and information that will make my work easier, faster, and of higher quality. I've kept track of this info in a lot of ways over the years: text files, bookmarks, a personal wiki, etc. It just occurred to me, "why not write them up as blog?" Even if I'm the only one who ever reads it, it'll serve as a good reference for me. If others stumble upon it and find it useful, all the better.
One thing I'm *not* going to do is write up tutorials. Search out any given tool or technique, and you'll find a virtual sea of tutorials, of widely varying quality. The world doesn't need more tutorials. What *I* (and maybe you) need is reminders of what's out there, and pointers to the best information I can find. That's what I'll post here.
Free Range Bytes? Yeah, sure, why not. If we're going to force them to carry all our information around for us, we might as well treat them to the best conditions possible...
2 comments:
Jase has cool fish.
I do concur. His fish are quite cool. His aquatic tendencies do concern many of us, but we are willing to overlook these idiosyncrasies 'cause he's such a fine programmer and a swell guy.
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