What on earth is going on here??
Here is a bit of a back story about why I created a blog in 2023.
TL;DR
I'm a tech junky with a computer science degree living in the country, full-time teleworking, that has been putting off creating a tech blog for 20 years.
Where do I start? First I guess I will start by telling you a little about me. I'm a software engineer/devops engineer/platform engineer and just general tech junky. I'm in my mid-forties, which means that I spent my youth in the best decade ever, the 90s!!! I grew up in a small town somewhere in middle America. I grew up in the country; hunting, camping, going to the lake, and shooting guns are the things I did for fun.
Even though I lived in the country I still grew up as a part of the original Nintendo generation and I have always had a scientific mind. When I was around 12 years old I got my first computer for Christmas. I was so excited, some of my friends had a computer and I had wanted one for quite a while. It was a 286 and it was awesome!
I did my fair share of playing games as most kids did but I was also very interested in making the computer do things I wanted it to do. One of the first things I did was to write a menu system for our 286. At the time Windows did not exist, so you were stuck using ms-dos. My mom would take me to the library and I would check out programming books. Yes, I had to check out actual books, the internet was not a thing for the common man yet. With help from my library books, I was able to write a simple menu system that made it easier for my family to use the computer. It was simple and the user just typed in a number to get to one of the programs that were loaded on the system. That's all it took and I was hooked, I knew I wanted to be a software engineer or rock star. We will talk more about that in a future post, maybe.
Fast forward a few years and I was in college pursuing my software engineering degree at a mid-sized state college and downloading illegal music off of Napster of course. I was working at a well-known internet company at the time doing tech support and that would lead me to meet my future wife online. This was way before dating sites and the like, but we met in what would have been a "chat room" at the time. I graduated with my computer science degree and worked for a few start-ups that allowed me to move out of my small town and travel around the country.
A few years later and my now wife and I were looking to move back home to the state we were from and I was lucky enough to find a job at a government agency where the work seemed interesting. I never really thought I would stay at a company for a long time as I like to move around and do different parts of the tech industry. Nor had I ever really thought about working for the government and what that really meant and some of the connotations associated with it. However, fast-forward about 2 decades and it turns out I am still happily working for that same government agency. In my career at the agency, I have been fortunate enough to have moved around and been allowed to do many different interesting and cutting-edge things. I have been a software engineer, application security SME, a DevOps engineer, and I am currently the lead platform engineer for our new Kubernetes platform. The agency I work for also started letting IT people start teleworking many years ago and I was allowed to start teleworking full-time a few years before the 2020 covid lockdown. I take pride in the work that I do for the government and enjoy my job and the people I work with.
I always knew I would move back to the country and a little over a decade ago my wife and I were able to purchase our dream property and build our dream home. Many of the people I work with are fascinated that I am a tech guy living on 20 acres somewhere out in the country, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I have used my tech knowledge to become a home automation junky and I am always trying to automate or modernize some aspect of my family's daily living.
Ok long story short, I have always wanted to create a tech blog just never took the time to write one; Notice I registered my joshdmoore.com domain in 2002.
Domain Name: JOSHDMOORE.COM
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Registrar URL: https://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2022-06-21T14:37:59Z
Creation Date: 2002-06-17T21:17:45Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2024-06-17T21:17:45Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
My 2023 resolution is to do some of the things I have wanted to do but have not done for one reason or another. This will mainly be a tech blog but will cover other things such as country living and a few other aspects of my life.
