Somewhat closer to home, the Singapore General Elections were held around this time. This also gave rise to a series of writings that sometimes coincided with views on COVID-19. This wasn't done on purpose, I swear. COVID-19 just got its hooks into everything.
As it stands, I've just lost my job last month. Long story. As of the first day of this month, I landed another job (though goodness knows how long that will last) and I'm scheduled for yet another stint in school starting this month. The yearly blogging break could not have come at a better time.
Here are some notes about content on this blog...
Web Tutorials
The web tutorials have mostly focused around a whole lot of JavaScript. What can I say; I'm a severely limited programmer and JavaScript happens to be an old friend. There's been new stuff, obviously - D3.js, ReactJS... yes, it's all still JavaScript, but it's different ways of applying the JavaScript ecosystem. You can be a good or bad programmer, but above all, have fun.
My love for learning new stuff has never been put to the test quite as severely as the past year. Everything I learned challenged my assumptions and showed me I know a lot less than I thought I did, and that I have a long way to go before considering myself even mildly accomplished. Which is fine by me; ego is overrated.
 |
| A long, long climb. |
Despite writing about Ruby just two months ago, I've not actually had a chance to touch it much. It's the same with QBasic. This year has been almost exclusively JavaScript and PHP. All in all, my grasp on tech has evolved. Though, it has to be said, I'm still trying to keep the web tutorials at levels that are accessible to beginners such as myself back then. In many ways, I'm still that wide-eyed kid playing with stuff.
Reviews
Thankfully, unlike last year, I managed to tone down on the overwhelming number of reviews, and actually varied the kind of reviews on offer. There's a recent Reference Review I did on The Mythical Man-month: Essays on Software Engineering, for instance.
 |
| No time to play. |
I've not had much time or inclination to play or review mobile games, which is a real pity. The mobile game makers seem to be getting more innovative by the day. I guess they have to, with all the competition that's out there, and the notoriously short attention span of their target audience.
Rants
As mentioned in the very first paragraph, there's been quite a few rants on this blog involving either the Singapore General Elections or COVID-19, or both. Regrettably, I've used more vulgarities than was absolutely necessary, and while I don't apologize for it, I acknowledge that things could have been worded a lot less offensively. Could.
 |
| Having things to say. |
All in all, though, I've been way less of a windbag this year than I've been prone to being the past few years, even though COVID-19 has given me plenty to rant about. Maybe it's because I got most of it out of my system. No point repeating myself.
Or possibly, I'm just getting old.
Others
As mentioned, there's been considerably more diversity in feature blogposts - a good balance of reviews, listicles and what-not. I will strive to maintain that balance.
That tends to be hard because daily, there is tech-related breaking news and I need to decide if I care about it enough to include it in TeochewThunder. And if I do, I need to make hard decisions about what to post now, and what to post later.
Next
Examining what resonated with readers, and what didn't.
No comments:
Post a Comment