I'm a software engineer. I believe the only way to learn a thing is to put it into practice — reading about a pattern is not the same as running it in production, and no tutorial survives contact with a real codebase.
I also believe what you learn today is gone tomorrow. So I study every day — not to chase novelty, but to stay on the thread and notice what actually changed.
How I study
As part of my research I document what I find: I keep a personal tech radar to organize what I'm trying, what I trust, and what I've moved past — and I write notes along the way.
Why this blog exists
This year I decided to turn those notes into posts. It forces me to go back over them, give them one more pass, and put something articulate out there instead of leaving half-thoughts in a file only I read.
Now
Based in Vancouver. Shipping one post a week. Maintaining the tech radar and, inevitably, rewriting my publishing pipeline again.