It's been a while since I've put time into maintaining a website, and now that I've got all my hosting and DNS managed through nearlyfreespeech.net I feel I can start paying attention again. This is despite the fact that I should be pouring more time into research; I can rationalize that having a place to actively write can only help me when it comes time to pen papers and the like. In the previous incarnation of my site, I used it as an area for playing around with CSS and tossing up write-ups (generated in the same spirit of keeping myself relatively sharp on the material) on various semi-technical topics. In addition when I hit problematic spots with Ubuntu on my old Dell Mini 9 I usually wrote up the solutions when I'd pieced them together, hopefully saving others the hassle. For the curious, that mini is currently employed as the interface of an all-optical switch deep in the CIAN testbed, still trucking on years later.
I've put together a poll on the sidebar to see what people would like to see show up here. If there is an option missing, feel free to drop it in the comments. I don't anticipate an enormous number of responses, so any feedback is appreciated.
Posting write-ups of anything science-related, particularly engineering/tech, is a great contribution and helps you as we'll as others. Maybe set a simple goal to write at minimum 2 things per month.
Personal projects are where it happens. With no materialistic incentives (salarly, grade, publication, etc.), only true passion of education for a topic remains. 🙂
That's a great suggestion! It should keep me from stagnating both in person as well as online.