It has been more than a year now since I originally deployed my COVID-19 Tracker to a live environment. In the time that it has been in production, I have learned a whole lot, both in terms of maintaining an app in production, and in watching the progression of the pandemic. At the very least, I have definitely come to truly appreciate how essential having something deployed to a live environment is to the learning process of being a good developer.

After recently going over some of my earliest blog posts, it dawned on me that I have been maintaining this blog for a whole year now. This realization inspired me to reflect on how and where the blog started, what’s happened since, as well as what the future might entail. In the Beginning…. The blog was without form. Well, not quite. When this blog started out, it was rather primitive. I was using Jekyll, as I had not yet done research into other static site generators, and deploying to GitHub Pages without a custom domain.

For those of who have been following this blog for a while now, you will have noticed I completely overhauled my website/blog to have an entirely new design, along with a new domain name, and a new hosting service. In this blog post, I would like to go over how I went about overhauling the website, as well as some of my reasons for doing so. Why? In the previous iteration, this blog was built on Jekyll, and hosted on GitHub Pages, without a custom domain.

First, I should note that the is perhaps a somewhat loaded question, as different people will inevitably have different criteria, and priorities for the languages they choose to use. Therefore, you will get many different answers to this question, depending on who you ask. It is also equally important to ask: what makes a good programming language for a specific use case? A language that is ideal for say, building web applications is likely not going to be equally ideal for writing drivers and operating system kernels.

Welcome to my new new blog and website! This is a pilot post for my new blogging website, build with Hugo and Netlify. My posts will primarily revolve around technology, science, society, and the connections between them. At any rate, I hope you enjoy my posts. Feel free to check out the “About”, and “Skills” pages for more information about me. Thank you again for visiting my blog, and feel free to contact via the email link below, if you care to.