Imagine my surprise at finding that this blog was still active after some three years of not touching it and almost forgetting it even existed.
Given that I have recently all but removed myself from social networking (good riddance!), this might be one of the few digital footprints I have left on the otherwise overcrowded and bloated internet of today.
The first iteration of this blog was intended mostly to convey my interests to a world beyond the small one in which I live my daily life, which is vastly underpopulated with likeminded folks. I have many ideas and a voracious appetite for learning and tinkering, but am very much a solo operative in that regard and have mostly taken to working alone.
In any case...
My primary interests are electronics and programming. I have taken a tremendous liking to embedded system design and programming over the last couple of years and am finally approaching a level of skill which allows me to not only envision new ideas but also be able to prototype them without help. I will outrightly admit to being self-taught and make no attempt to hide my lack of formal training and rigor. However, I take tremendous pride in my work and have an almost perfectionist nature when it comes to the things I build and the software I write. I go to equally extreme lengths to keep my code tidy and readable as I do with making sure my solder joints are clean.
When I first started this blog, I really didn't know what (if anything) I wanted to do with it. So I will simply focus not on what I think other people might want to read, but rather what I want to say - which will probably have a lot to do with projects I'm working on or things I might be struggling with along the way. And perhaps more importantly, I will strive to be honest. I wish to convey my journey as it pertains to learning and discovery, whether it involve failure or success. At this juncture, I am aware of the distance I have travelled to get to where I am skillset-wise, though there is yet a tremendous journey ahead of me to get to where I think I want to be.
If you should take something positive away from any of what may follow, then that's fantastic. If you don't, no harm, no foul. Regardless, I hope my enthusiasm for learning and engineering shows in my writing and I do hope that someone out there might one day find something on these pages useful.
-MD
