Hello World!

Welcome to My Developer Blog

This blog is more than just a collection of articles. It's a platform for me to develop my personal brand, share my story, write about personal projects and new ideas, and connect with others in the wider tech community.

Your personal brand is the combination of your skills, the values you present, and the impression you leave on others. While actively building your personal brand may seem like a selfish endeavor, it’s far from it. It’s an empowering choice.
- How to Define, Develop, and Communicate Your Personal Brand

So what is MY personal brand?

Even though it is constantly evolving, I can think of a few values that are important to me when considering my "brand".

Stay Curious
Be a great listener and communicator
Always show up for my team
Do good work

Those brush strokes are broad and overlapping. What I really strive for is to do good work and be good to work with.

What about skills?

After 10 years of professional experience, almost all of the work I've done is owned by the companies I've worked for. I want concrete examples of my skills, that I own. This is where the blog comes into play. In order to showcase my chops as a full-stack developer, I can cover how I built this blog and what tech stack I used, or Authentication best practices, or how React has moved to the server, or how to implement a serverless Api.

Whats next with this site?

There are 3 things I want to focus on moving forward.

Creating Content. I'm challenging myself to create 1 post a week for the next 2 months.
The site is bare bones right now, and I'd like to continue to add features, such as the ability to easily share posts on social media, and creating a library page for all posts.
Integrating analytics and learning SEO best practices..