Friday, June 28, 2019

Necroing My Own Blog

I haven't posted anything since the end of 2014 (wow nearly 5 years ago, gone in a flash). I just wanted to explain what's been going on since and why I've changed format. Sorry this post is so late, I've just had a ton of other priorities and sort of forgot I even had a blog lol. I started out making Youtube videos and doing sister write-ups on this blog and it was manageable when I was only putting out content a few times a month at best. However, I started wanting to do weekly content and creating blog posts started to get very time consuming, adding even more work on top of the increase in time I was spending editing more videos. On top of this the complexity of projects and repairs I was doing was increasing. All of this added to my load of finishing up school and starting a career. So I decided to just move to only producing content for Youtube.

As for technical write-ups, for awhile I started just uploading technical design files to the cloud and linking them in video descriptions, but this method was unsustainable. Recently, I got the feeling that to do my projects justice I need both video and written project logs so I was tempted to resume my blog. I decided instead to go with Hackaday.io and here's why. I am already an entrenched member of the Hackaday main site, regularly commenting and having my projects published. Additionally the sister project .io site has built in utilities to handle uploading and sharing project files directly in the editor.

So I will continue to produce content on other platforms for the time being and leave this blog here as part of my history record (and who knows I may decide to return to posting here in the future). I just want to thank everyone who visits this blog and comments for their support and if you want to see more of what I do then my Youtube channel can be found here and my Hackaday.io project page is here. For the time being this will be my last post. So long and thanks for all the fish ...