One year ago today, on The Seventh Anniversary, I announced my retirement from tech blogging:
“However, at the same time, life circumstances have changed quite a bit, and my interest in free-time coding and writing has been waning. As a result, for the time being, I am retiring from tech blogging. It’s quite possible that I might write something interesting from time to time, but for now, let’s say I’m taking a break.”
Despite that, I managed to write five articles over the past year:
- Getting Started with Cartography for AWS
- From .NET to GoLang: Where Did Everything Go?
- GoLang Set Data Structure
- Filebeat, Elasticsearch and Kibana with Docker Compose
- Calculating Circle Area the Monte Carlo Way
The first four are things I have been working with, whereas the last one is something from my MSc days that I’ve been wanting to write for a decade.
As I now celebrate the 8th anniversary of this blog, writing a handful of articles in a year doesn’t bother me at all. In fact, on The Sixth Anniversary I made the commitment to focus on quality rather than quantity. Having recently changed tech stack completely, I’ve been inspired to write about some things that I felt were both interesting and poorly documented, despite my apparent retirement from tech blogging.
And this is how it will continue to be: I’ll write something if and when I think it is useful to do so.