Hello #Mastodon!

I made a new profile that I'll use to discuss technology and other subjects around it.

All of my other social media accounts (like @analog_cafe ) focus on art and film photography. But I am also a web developer by profession (more on that below) and so this is the place where I decided to post my tech opinions from now on. I think it's better to keep those things separate.

I'm not a digital native, but I can certainly say I grew up with computers. I plaid and created with them for well over 25 years.

My relationship with those machines has mostly stayed private for this entire time, with a few attempts to write a blog post or answer a tech question. I like contributing to open-source projects, publishing my code, and releasing large websites into production. But that's not the same as sharing my experience or talking about what it's like to build something or be a part of a developer community.

However, I recently decided to quit my job as a senior engineer at a large web publishing company to pursue my creative goals (see above). While I no longer hold a full-time engineering position, there's still a lot of engineering to do and talk about (I run a custom photography blog built with Next.js with web apps and various integrations).

This is not to say that I've got a bunch of free time, but I've been wanting to create some sort of channel for my technology-related thoughts and essays. Seeing how I still have over 9.5K characters remaining on this server, I think this is a great home for it.

Like many things I've tried over the years, this is an experiment. Call it what you like, but I tend to abandon projects that don't get some sort of attention. In other words, let's see how this goes.

Here are some things I'm interested in:

#javascript #github #opensource #infosec #openweb #webdev #webdesign #frontend #nodejs #internetcultureandmemes