When I started this project it was meant to be just tips and tricks from random projects I encounter in my travels through the IT world, but like always, life makes it own corrections… Sometimes they are for better, other times they are are for worse.
The 2019 started like usual with with all sorts of interesting projects and new ideas and new tech to play with. It was fun while it lasted… But all was not well by the summer time. I had a pet project that I was doing with couple of people and at one point I got played. The project died and I had invested so much time to it that the rest of projects had slipped away and taken over by other people. This happens from time to time with joggling multiple projects… No biggie I thought then – boy was I mistaken… By the beginning of summer it was clear that the pet project was dead for me and I was dismissed from it even tho I had put in 100% of my time and energy. So I thought I would spend a nice summer with my family any by autumn another project would come along as it had happened from years before. Little did I know how much time it had took and how much people had I alienated because of it… Yes there were few small projects that took few days or even up to a week but nothing special – nothing to look forward to… Even small insignificant projects wanted NDA so nothing to write about – so I put this project into a dormant state – there was just nothing interesting I could write about that I thought would be interesting….
And then the 2020 happened – things could not go worse I thought. Well I was mistaken again. Who would have thought that a small insignificant corona virus that has raised it’s head for decade or to would have so big impact on the world. It was not the first time a flu like virus has raised it’s ugly head in the midst of the regular flu season… Who would have thought that it would turn the world upside down and throw it to chaos and disarray. Yes – it is better than living in the dark ages where the plague roamed freely and there was no real cure for it, but still – moving away from your comfort zone is always hard, but still… Being used to a certain standard of living and getting it taken away so easily and with all the restrictions on travel, shopping… I know people in large metropolis's are used to it to wear a mask day to day bases, but to the rest of the world it is not normal. It just rubs against the grain… Yes there are good things that have came from it like most IT conscious companies have had to create remote working capabilities to their employees so people can work remotely and without the hassle of getting to an office exactly the same time as the rest of 90% of people. But still the infrastructure project have withered away and everyone wants a web shop or a e-commerce site to dropshipping from china. And if that was not enough that airmail from china was 20 days before – it has gone up to 90...120 days if it even arrives. The USA and china trade war is also creating some friction between China an the rest of the world and to sum it up – we live in the interesting times.
What will it mean to this site? Well… in short – I don’t have something interesting lined up for some time now so the best I can do is try to tinker with my home lab and hope it is enough. Maybe something interesting or useful comes up form time to time but no fancy new hardware or licensed software for the time being – lets see what the future brings and take it a day at a time. The project is not dead but just shifted to lower priority.
PS! My writing skills have also deteriorated over the past two years (have not written for public consumption for few years) so I’ll try to improve myself again :)
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