Post-Pandemic

Over the past 18 months, we’ve all had to deal with substantial changes to the way we go about our daily lives. Sudden shifts in priorities can help people re-evaluate what’s important to them, and that’s certainly the case for me.

Like many of you during the pandemic, I’m sure, I’ve spent my time outside of work trying to make sure my children – ages 5 and 3 – aren’t starved for any of the normal experiences they would have had otherwise. I have had very little time to blog, or even work on side projects.

Things are starting to return to normal. As my kids get settled into their school routines and my family starts to get back to a normal schedule, I am easing myself back into blogging.

After reviewing some of my last blogs and series from before reality broke, I’ve realized that the code repositories attached to my blogs are missing some key tools that I use in my personal projects. This makes the blog material harder to work with than I would like. However, most of these tools are non-public and tied to certain intellectual property I would rather avoid making public.

For now.

I have undertaken a massive project to refactor a significant number of my internal tools and decouple them from anything sensitive. As I break out new components, templates, and SDKs, I will start publishing them. And I’ll even write a blog or two about what they do and how they make (my) life easier.

Eventually, I’ll get back to wrapping up the things I started 21 months ago. I think that including my toolsets will make the experience of working with those blogs and the related code material significantly better. It might also be nice to have a set of tools available to help other developers easily replicate some of these patterns and practices without having to write and maintain a bunch of boilerplate.

I look forward to making my first real OSS splash. Until then, stay healthy!