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Started as a way to train English writing and try to establish some presence online to bolster my CV. Posts of topics related to work, weekend projects, and personal reflections.
It's interesting to get back to older posts and find out how my skills, perceptions and opinions change as I progress in my career.
Been writing on it for almost 18 years - a mix of tech, design, photography. Custom designed myself, but built with Jekyll.
Some recent posts:
- https://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use/ (a set of "gear" pages i've been trying to keep up to date)
- https://paulstamatiou.com/digital-clutter/ (Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes)
- https://paulstamatiou.com/revisiting-the-apple-ipod/ (Revisiting the iPod: Buying and using a 20 year old iPod)
- https://paulstamatiou.com/craft/ (Craft: Thoughts on elevating product quality)
- https://paulstamatiou.com/building-a-windows-10-lightroom-ph... (Building a Lightroom PC: Why I switched to Windows and built a water-cooled 5.2GHz editing machine)
I’ve been writing on and off for a few years now! I’ve mostly been using this to note any particularly troublesome bugs/commands as well as use writing to think through some analysis throughout my career.
It's not much, but it's my home for things I make that are at least somewhat like articles.
I post about things that are interesting to me, which is mostly MediaWiki software-related (which means Lua, JS, CSS, Python, SQL in a MW context), but also sometimes not - I've talked about random unrelated Python libraries, written a bunch of book reviews, etc.
Two years into hosting this blog I did also write a post about hosting a blog.
Been up and down on cadence over the years, but a few posts that have shown up here.
- Give me back my monolith - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/13/give-me-back-my-mo...
- Why Postgres - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2012/04/30/why-postgres/
- Unfinished business with Postgres - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2022/05/18/unfinished-busines...
- A guide to PR for startups - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2015/07/21/a-guide-to-pr-for-...
I've got a few posts on there (although most are still on my "been meaning to write that post for literal years" list). Some at random:
https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2021/12/07/temphost/ - Temphost: Host files quickly on a dumb HTTP host with optional time-to-live
https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2021/06/29/rsync-backup-restore-... - How to Backup and Restore root-owned Files Over the Network Using Rsync
https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2020/04/12/fun-with-decompiled-m... - Some Fun With Decompiled Super Mario 64
https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2020/03/28/fake-home-prison/ - Imprisoning Naughty Dotfiles in a Fake $HOME
https://tomwh.uk/blog/posts/2018/02/09/alt-useful-key-vim/ - The Most Useful Key In Vim (Not Escape)
Mostly tech stuff, and some games. Recent topics have been:
Python, Django, C, CMake, SDL2.
These days I generally use it as a place to write up notes on whatever I happened to be working on recently. This is sometimes useful for me to refer back to, and hopefully useful for others too.
On one occasion I searched on Google to try and help solve a programming problem, only to find a post from myself published 8 months earlier, in which I had solved that exact same problem:
https://sam.hooke.me/post/2018/10/that-weird-feeling/
Before becoming a full time software engineer I used to develop video games for fun, initially in Game Maker but then later in Unity and other languages. Over time I'm aiming to (re)publish them on my website, rather than just leaving them to rot on my hard drive. None were particularly big hits back in the day, though the most successful was probably Dominos 2: Winter Edition, a physics based platformer with level editor. You can play it here:
Top posts:
- Rethinking Visual Programming with Go - https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go
- Visualizing Concurrency in Go - https://divan.dev/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/
- TXQR - Animated QR data transfer https://divan.dev/posts/animatedqr/
- Fountain codes and animated QR - https://divan.dev/posts/fountaincodes/
- Thought Experiment: Flutter in Go - https://divan.dev/posts/flutter_go/
Haven't been posting lately – COVID+War, plus my main focus now on radical reforming sports system in Ukraine and building a new figure skating federation (a lot of cool coding stuff there too, but also a lot of research on sports governance/science).
My open source blog mainly with (geospatial) niche tutorials.
It's a pretty personal thing as I mostly (but not only) derive the blog posts from challenges I encounter during work or my PhD research. In this way it documents my learnings and serves as a quite verbose personal wiki.