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12 Oct 2024 - Daniel Sherwood

Welcome to my blog! I have several goals I want to achieve using via this blog.

Here they are:

1. Develop my thoughts in more detail for things I already understand
2. Enhance my knowledge of things I do not yet understand (like Jekyll and static-web programming, lol)
3. Work-out the kinks for my custom keyboard layout
4. Increase my github commit rate

The truth of the matter is, I haven’t written creatively in a very long time. All most everything I write nowadays is purely technical. And I’m not sure if it’s because I’m maturing or what but I feel a real need to communicate my experiences and what I’ve learned in life. Not that it matters – with LLMs summarizing the entire internet and therefore, the majority of human experience, my personal experiences count for very little :). Still, I hope you find them entertaining!

The second purpose of this blog is to help me learn new things. I love the process of learning. But there is so much that I want to learn! This blog will help me organize my thoughts and help me learn through developing explanations. Hopefully you will learn something interesting, too!

The third purpose is a bit silly. I have one of those fancy, customizable keyboards and I somewhat regret the layout. You see, I’ve doubled-up the shift key and the space key. A long press means shift and a short (regular) press makes a space. But what this means is that if I start typing quickly and I have to capitalize, I end up making an extra space instead of a capital letter. Maybe a little more practice is all I need.

Finally, using Github to develop a blog means that I will increase my commit rate. I would love to show multiple commits per day to a prospective employer. Seems like a good goal to accomplish while tackling the other three.

Thank you for reading!