Welcome to my new home

My first foray into blogging was 8 years ago, in 2010, when I was learning C# and .Net for the first time.  At the time I decided to blog about what I was learning as a way to help make things stick. Not only was I learning a new language and platform, but, as a result of my own personal “Hit Refresh” moment, I was learning a new discipline as I changed gears in my career from IT operations to software engineering.

That blog experience lasted for a year before I ran out of steam for a bit. I stopped blogging due to a mix of shifting personal priorities, a (un)healthy dose of imposter syndrome, and a progression in the complexity of the stuff I was learning. Part of it, too, was that I was getting opportunities at work to exercise and grow my software engineering skills on real projects, so my initial reason for blogging wasn’t such a need any more.

Fast forward 2 years and I had somehow I managed to talk my way into a job at Microsoft, which meant relocating my family to Redmond. The five years since have been an amazing ride.  I’ve worked with some great people and learned a lot about my craft. We had a great experience living the USA for nearly 5 years and got to see a good chunk of the country.

At the start of this year we moved back to Australia for personal reasons, and I started working for WiseTech Global, a Sydney company developing software for the global logistics industry. I’ve been learning a bunch of platforms and frameworks that I hadn’t used before, and that got my blogging juices flowing again.

So, here I am, back in the saddle as it were, writing up stuff that’s on my mind, that I don’t want to forget, or that I think is cool and want to share with others.  I can’t promise it’ll be super entertaining or regular, but I’m back to give it ago.  Let’s see what happens…