Welcome#
Hey, you found me! Welcome to my blog. As is tradition, in this first post I’ll attempt to set the stage for the rest of the blog in terms of what I plan to do with it, and why you should care to read any of it.
I have been a professional software developer since 2014, and I have managed to form some thoughts and opinions over time that I’d like to share with a broader audience. These ideas are not limited strictly to the writing of code, but will be at least tangentially related. This isn’t going to be a personal journal - I sincerely hope that beyond this particular post each and every article I write here provides readers with tangible value.
I have always been a backend developer, so don’t expect much front-end stuff from me. My primary language for many years now has been Go, so expect to see a lot of that. However I don’t want this blog to be only about code. I also want to touch on process, roles, hiring, tools, and all the other fun stuff that comes with the real world of software development.
Why Now?#
I have wanted to write this blog for several years, but many of the concrete bits of code that I wanted to talk about were proprietary. Recently however, Zircuit open-sourced their code (ironically I was the developer responsible for making that happen), which allows for me to finally fork and discuss a lot of code that I wrote.
Zircuit has since also decided to terminate the development of their L2 blockchain, which has suddenly provided me with extra free time. I don’t expect to be out of work for long, but I might as well take advantage.