When I had my original website, it felt like a way to share pieces of my life that meant the most. Back then, I often posted quotes that resonated with me, ideas I wanted to hold onto or share with others. But when Rachel hung the chalkboard in our kitchen, it quickly became my f…
What is RSS?RSS, RDF Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Syndication, etc… is a computer readable file format that websites publish to notify systems that there has been an update to the site. A link element is placed in the head of the site to allow the auto-disco…
Now that the site is getting more feature complete and I have written a few articles, I wanted to explain in more depth why I chose “The Aging Developer” and what it means to me.I came to a career in software, specifically product R&D, in a round-about way. I did not go to school…
Netlify is a great service. It gets my workflow and I can’t heap enough praise on it. It provides a subdomain for your site to be hosted on by default. This is great way to get started. At some point though your going to want to move your site off to it’s own domain. Making that …
I only had two hard requirements when I started this site up. At work we have an internal development blog that uses a static site generator. The articles are markdown files that you check into the repository and the CI/CD system builds the site and deploys it. That workflow is v…
Throughout my 20s I was an active participant online. I followed and worked on open source projects in the late 90s and early 2000s. When Web 2.0 (also know as the Social Web) started to take shape I was involved. My Space, Digg, Twitter, Facebook were all sites where I participa…
