Why Write A Blog?

How we communicate matters. The method needs to engage the audience such that the capacity for retention and requirement for recall is well matched.

I like to write things down as for most of the things in this blog I’m going to be the whole audience of one. For the things that I write where it’s likely that my capacity for retention is low but my requirement for recall is high.

It also allows the information to remain in perpetuity and though the audience is just me, it can be consumed by a wider audience with no additional input by myself (Though I’m happy to if anyone wants it).

As a software developer/engineer then I often need to communicate technical things to both technical and non-technical people and depending on the audience will prefer different communication methods.

This blog is my attempt at writing down the things that I learn for reference, and I’ll do it in such a way that is can be consumed by others.

How I’m going to Blog

Where possible I’m going to be structured in the approach that I take based on the types of things that I want to talk about.

Technical Investigation & Basic Implementation

These are looking into a new technology or trying to learn something new about a new one. These investigations should provide first steps into something new. I’m not going to clone what’s already out there, but I will reference any sources.

Architectural Musings

These are considerations that I’ve had and then forgot and then when encountering a particular problem have suddenly reappeared as “I’ve got a feeling I’ve done this before”. I’m interested here in scenarios and then decisions not the other way around. In other words, “I want to find solutions to problems and not problems to fit solutions” (I was just a little bit sick in my mouth)

Cheat Sheets, Hacks or Snippets

Call me old school (or don’t) but never is there a day where I’ve not got a notepad++ open with several tabs with those commands that I use all the time. Maybe it’s a Azure CLI deployment script or a script for kicking up a react project. I know there are 100s of tools out there that support clip board snippets. I still use a notepad.