Here be dragons

As software engineers, we are asked to create ever-more-elaborate products. Slick websites, cool web apps, fun mobile games.

Just as a painter who is hired to paint commissions for clients yearns to paint solely for the joy of it. I sometimes want to create something simple and basic. Just for the “joy of programming”. I bet this is true of all the overly commercialized creative arts. And yes, I’m grouping coding as a form of artistic expression. Isn’t it?

I miss the simpler days of the web. When posting blog content was easy, and less encumbered. Early Twitter (via SMS). Remember Posterous?

This blog is an attempt to get back to the old days of the web. Random thoughts of a tech geek who drops way too many 80’s pop sci-fi references and dad jokes. Analogous thinking and bias frameworks somehow intertwined with some obscure quote or Star Wars reference. Kinda like this guy. OMG I love this guy. When I grow up, I wanna be like him, except I keep falling asleep reading The Fall of Númenor or The Silmarillion

Still reading? You are brave. Be warned. hic sunt dracones

“Here be dragons” means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist. Wikipedia

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“This blog is an elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.”

The wonderful Cory Doctorow said it best,

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