First Blog post using Golang.

Happy New Year and 20 more years.

Hello! My name is Tim and this is my first blog post. I don’t expect anyone to read this or follow along too much, but I wanted to keep this as a repository of topics I found interesting.

This blog was highly influenced by https://github.com/eliben/code-for-blog which has content going back to 2005. I found that blog as a fork of a developer who wrote a database obfuscation/masking tool that I was investigating the usefulness of. To look back at this time after 20 years of posts like that blog would be very reminiscing, and seems like a great idea and investment.

I have been programming in either college or through work for over 7 years now and there are so many topics that have changed or I have forgotten that I want to be able to look back to. For example, a college web development book based on PHP 5.3, phpMyAdmin, and Notepad++ dated 2011.
Or the C++ 11 material I have learned and completely forgotten by this point. I can remember the data structures, pointers, references and so on, but it’s been years since I have touched it. Maybe one of these posts will be a deep dive into header files because they are still an anomaly to me.
Then there are the more obscure languages that rarely see the light of day outside of an educational institution or some niche including APL, Fortran 66, and assembly. I am sure there are lessons to be learned from these languages that I would have written here that are being lost to time.

As of today, my interests are widespread. I am interested in the popular like Typescript, React, and Python, for the support, libraries, and community. I am interested in the hyped like Go and Rust to see what makes a language develop such a fanbase (also why I am writing this in Go). I want to return to game development using either Unity or Unreal to create enjoyment. And lastly, build upon the practical like NeoVim or GitHub.

I am not sure what the future articles will entail, but I look forward to looking back.