Intro

Thanks for stopping by! This site is a small experiment to find out how hard it is to write a blog application and to use that application to write blog entries about computer related things that I find interesting.

I also want to use the site to start creating a list of my books. Or rather my computer related books. I have quite a lot of them. The thinking is that when I buy a new book, I write a short review of the book and publish it on this site when I've finished reading it. That way I hope to better remember the things I've learned when reading it. I also plan to, some day, add the older books that I've bought over the years so that the site will contain a complete listing of all computer books that I own. But doing that is quite a big, and boring, job so we'll see when I get around to doing it.

Another reason for creating this site has been to work a little bit with technologies that I'm interested in, but that I don't get to work with in my day job. At least not to the extent that I want ;)

This version of the blog is built using AWS technologies (Go lambdas, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront). It is a total rewrite of a previous version that used Python/Django and MongoDB that was hosted on a physical server rented by a friend of mine.

The reasons for discontinuing the previous blog and rewriting the blog application using Go and AWS technologies are 1) AWS technologies are cost efficient and 2) I wanted to do some real Go programming.

The goal with this site is not that it should be pretty. I just want to have some fun creating and maintaining it :)