Mic check

They say literature is a third age activity. Bukowski and many more¹ published their first works around their fifties. While this blog is by no means a work of literature, I decided to walk the path of these greats and start my very first personal blog at 37.

This probably is not going to be a tech blog. While writing code occupies most of my week and certainly I have some thoughts about engineering that I would like to share with the world, my primary idea for this website is to be an outlet for all kinds of ideas that come to my mind day to day. I have no set plans or any specific list of topics that I would like to cover here so the goal is to just write as much as possible and see where it takes me. So I guess for a while it will be an exercise in finding my own writing voice, so bear with me. Also, I have no fixed schedule for publishing new posts but, if my reading pace can be taken as a reference for my writing, the posts here will probably be very infrequent.

If the above didn’t make this website unappealing enough I would also like to stress out that, obviously, English in not my first language so anything I write here is probably be ridden with grammar errors and cumbersome language constructs.

So, why should you follow what I write here, then?

Well, like anyone on this Earth, I have a story to tell. Lots of them. I think a lot about things that happen to me daily, both internally and externally and I like to reflect on it. I feel like a lot of these reflections could be relatable for fellow human beings on the internet.

Second, I enjoy finding hidden gems in a lot different spheres of human activities, be it music, video games, beer or just a weird piece of furniture someone designed in post-ww2 Yugoslavia. And I’ll do my best to share it here bundled with an opinion nobody asked for.

And third, professionally I feel like I have enough unstructured experience that gathered over the years. So writing here, I hope to organize this heap of information and opinions into a nice, well-framed portrait of an engineer. You know, get to know myself better. I believe some of these lessons will be interesting and beneficial especially, but not limited to, fellow software engineers.

So that wraps up this first chunk. In order to keep it byte-sized I’m going to stop it right here and thank everybody that made it this far. Hope you enjoyed it because who knows when the next one will drop.