Blogging

TL;DR

This post is a bit about my background and what I envision for my blog going forward. I need to update my blog more frequently. An 8-year gap between posts is really long!

It’s been a while since my last post

I am updating my blog, one more time. I failed to achieve my objective in my previous blog post, Being More Active, which I wrote in 2016. That blog post was written three years after my last blog post in 2013. I suppose if we were to look at the posting gaps from a breaking personal records perspective, going from a three-year writing gap to an eight-year gap might be quite the record. I really should do better.

It would seem that I’ve allowed this blog to become inactive. It’s been three years since my last post. To be honest, I was never much of a blogger so I’m not surprised this site has languished.

Going forward, I plan to write more frequently and expand the content to include more technology-related posts, particularly tutorials. As a Solutions Engineer at Hortonworks, I find plenty of opportunities to generate useful content based on my daily work.

A few weeks ago, I posted that I would experiment with using Tumblr as my blogging platform.  I used Tumblr over the last few weeks.  I think it worked alright, but the workflow didn’t work quite right.  Trying to get posts to look the way I wanted was a bit too onerous.  When I post a photo, I usually want to provide some minimal background or support description.  I liked how Tumblr presented photos using the “Photo” post type.  But that format doesn’t support much in the way of descriptive text.  That forces me to use the “Text” post type and embed the photo.  These post types have different behaviors regarding options and the look and feel of the posts.