It’s been a minute

I have been away from my website for ~~about 6? 7?~~ several years now. I was working an office job (OJ) where I learned a lot and had a lot of responsibility. But like how so many of these stories go, the company was sold to a larger company, which was again sold to an even larger company, and my particular skillset (I know a little bit about a lot of different roles and can frequently step in to solve an immediate problem) wasn’t translatable to an organization with hierarchy, fiefdoms, and org chart boxes.

The CEO of the middle company referred to me as a “Swiss Army Knife”. I took this to mean that I was the tool you used because you always had it with you, while you figured out which tool would work best going forward.

Over the next few (time periods tbd) I will be changing this site completely. I’m not quite sure what it will hold but I’m thinking about making it a bit of a retrospective so I can figure out how I got to where I am now. More like an extended “About Me” rather than memoir. So there will still be some photographs and longer-form posts, but probably? not galleries. I will likely bring over some posts from the photography site, and who knows what else?

Right now this is a single page even though there is navigation. Eventually there will be more blog-like stuff (including RSS) as well as more static topics.

Maybe.

Also, I am finding it difficult to “let something else worry about everything else” but with any luck I will be able to just handle everything with configuration options and without adding a bunch of bespoke functions.

But I am enjoying playing with what’s available 😀

Technical Details

I moved my hosting from Pair.com to Fastmail.com when Pair jacked up the prices of email. When I moved the email hosting I saw that Fastmail offers some webhosting space for static sites.

My previous site was written using Jekyll with a lot of modifications. This time I’m trying to just do the writing and let something else worry about everything else. Static website generators have come a long way in the past decade with tons of options. However, I do want to practice technical writing and reporting, so I’m doing this in Quarto. I did some reports in R for OJ using RStudio.