Goals

The inspiration for this blog is the talk by Troy Hunt that I find myself going back to a few times every year as a lot of what he says really resonates with me.

I find that it's extremely useful to list goals when trying to do something new since at some point you're going to have to make decisions, and a set of guiding goals generally helps with that.

1. Understand the technology I write about well enough to explain it to others.
2. Practice writing coherent technical documentation.
3. Have examples of the things that I do to back up what I say.
4. Be able to point myself and others to things I write here when asked for explanations.

I've done a few things to help me not get super distracted when trying to achieve these goals:

• I haven't started from scratch, I'm using Gatsby and LekoArts Template as a starting point to help focus on content.
• I chose a template which allows me to write the blog in markdown. It also allows me to write arbitrary React Components and embed them for more dynamic content. The YouTube video in this page is actually one such component and was defined wth

Copycopy code to clipboard
1import YoutubeEmbed from "../../components/Youtube/Youtube.tsx";
2<YoutubeEmbed
3    embed_id="PBR5shDXVUI"
4    title="Hack Your Career"
5/>

• I have set up a set of GitHub actions to auto build and deploy this blog onto Github pages. It's free and takes no additional effort on my part to maintain.
• I've set up some Google Analytics from the beginning to help me track whether anyone views the content.