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I’ve never really done a great job of tracking my New Year’s resolutions. Like most people, I make them then slowly give them up after a few weeks. This year I really want to make a change in the way I approach them. So, why not write a blog post about them in order to hold myself accountable? If I make it public, maybe it’ll provide the extra oomph that I need to stick with them.

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I’ve been toying with some ideas for websites and apps for several years now but never really felt like I had the time to invest in building them. The dream has always been to create web applications that not only help me learn something new but that I can potentially use as a revenue stream. That’s all changed with the advent of agentic-powered software development.

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We decided to kick off planning much earlier this year compared to previous years; we had the website up, CFP and sponsor prospectus up and online by mid October. Our goal was to try and go after end-of-year marketing dollars and get ahead of the game.

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I haven’t blogged nearly as much as I had planned on blogging. This past year has been a pretty busy year. I attended the DevOpsDays Organizer Summit and presented on how to do a venue search (something near and dear to my heart). I also presented at DevOpsDays Philadelphia (still wishing that I had taken ane extra day to explore the city). I was lucky enough to attend Kubecon North America this year and have decided to go after my Certified Kubernetes Administrator Certification.

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It’s been way to long since I’ve consistently blogged. Years of working at Amazon made me cautious about what I publicly put out there on the interwebz. I have so many things on the backburner in my personal to-do log that I’ve just not found the time to get around to.

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I have struggled with mental wellness most of my life. I think the first time I realized that I wasn’t like other kids must have been Kindergarten. I seemed to be more sensitive than other kids and was plagued with self-doubt. I also seemed to have stronger emotional swings, mostly towards anger and sadness. What I didn’t realize then is that other kids didn’t have the same chaos at home. I was different because my environment was different, and I adapted to survive it.

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For the longest time I’ve wanted to build a proper website using all the fun JavaScript and CSS tricks that full-stack devs do (and that I’ve been jealous of). As a platform / systems / operations engineer, my speciality is in using code to build systems. Front-end design, UI and UX, accessibility, and so many more things are just not part of my day-to-day activities. I think tha they are all incredibly valuable, but my career is hard enough to keep up with technological changes happening in my own tech field, much less those happening in fields that are far outside of my speciality. So I gave it a shot and tried out Gatsby when I started to redesign this site.

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Blogging is something that I’ve attempted and failed numerous times over the past years decades. My first attempt at my own webpage happened in High School in 1996 with an Angelfire site. Later I moved onto Geocities along with the post-AOL crowd. Next came Angelfire, then a dynamic DNS setup pointing to a page hosted in my dorm room at college. For most of the 00’s I was radio silent while overseas. When I finally got back to the states I tried to get back into it, first on Facebook, then running my own static site on Bluehost. For the past five years I’ve been hosting static sites on AWS, which is where we are today.

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