Three years - 2018-2021. I had a lot of loss the least of was my laptop, and large chunks of my memory due to 'epileptic aphasia', compound concussions. The most is loss to a word that I won't expand on but I hope that this message resonates with somebody when they feel loss.
I was still maintaining a couple of WordPress sites badly. Every time I would have a cluster of seizures (every few months) I would forget any mental progress I made and developed #imposter syndrome#.
I have always had an interest in code. From making basic HTML sites when I was young, learning the CSS hacks we used ten years ago, the revolution of GULP.js. Taking a huge site, minifying it, compressing it, concatenating it, compressing it and then serving static cached content. Ignore the next two paragraphs if you want - it isn't me tooting my horn, I am genuinely proud of what I achieved while ordering it in a head with a non traditional memory.
See I want to give some context, specially to people who haven't seen how far we have come. In the last ten years I have wrote hundreds of thousands words on SEO (some of it looks laughable now, but was relevant at the time so remains relevant to old codebase. I am updating my website so won't leave a link. Google me to find a website that I broke working through a concussion on, but has information and tools which might be laughable now, but it isn't 2014 anymore.
I worked on benchmarking and trying to crack pieces of Google's algorithm back when the Big Seo discord was actually not so big and felt like a team - discussing data science, spearman Vs pearsons rank correlation studies. I was making infographics. I was a jack of all trades but my focus was minifying the web and removing dead content. I also like helping sole traders or very small businesses.
Then I broke. I actually really want to thank you for giving me a place to order my thoughts and am hesitant to write this.
It took a lot of updating myseIf to the new world of frameworks now am back to my original goal of making the web as accessible as possible while minifying and compressing everything I can.
You need the right tools for the job and strongly agree with Tim Burners-Lee and Ryan Dhal. People have taken the wrong path - Devs develop for Devs rather than the end user. Do you know the energy and carbon cost of the internet?
I hope the summery of the last decade of my life helps anyone who will inevitably feel loss, grief and maybe burnout. I am not sure what good dev said this first but #all good Devs feel impostor syndrome# - at some point- it is what keeps us learning and creating.
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Three years - 2018-2021. I had a lot of loss the least of was my laptop, and large chunks of my memory due to 'epileptic aphasia', compound concussions. The most is loss to a word that I won't expand on but I hope that this message resonates with somebody when they feel loss.
I was still maintaining a couple of WordPress sites badly. Every time I would have a cluster of seizures (every few months) I would forget any mental progress I made and developed #imposter syndrome#.
I have always had an interest in code. From making basic HTML sites when I was young, learning the CSS hacks we used ten years ago, the revolution of GULP.js. Taking a huge site, minifying it, compressing it, concatenating it, compressing it and then serving static cached content. Ignore the next two paragraphs if you want - it isn't me tooting my horn, I am genuinely proud of what I achieved while ordering it in a head with a non traditional memory.
See I want to give some context, specially to people who haven't seen how far we have come. In the last ten years I have wrote hundreds of thousands words on SEO (some of it looks laughable now, but was relevant at the time so remains relevant to old codebase. I am updating my website so won't leave a link. Google me to find a website that I broke working through a concussion on, but has information and tools which might be laughable now, but it isn't 2014 anymore.
I worked on benchmarking and trying to crack pieces of Google's algorithm back when the Big Seo discord was actually not so big and felt like a team - discussing data science, spearman Vs pearsons rank correlation studies. I was making infographics. I was a jack of all trades but my focus was minifying the web and removing dead content. I also like helping sole traders or very small businesses.
Then I broke. I actually really want to thank you for giving me a place to order my thoughts and am hesitant to write this.
It took a lot of updating myseIf to the new world of frameworks now am back to my original goal of making the web as accessible as possible while minifying and compressing everything I can.
You need the right tools for the job and strongly agree with Tim Burners-Lee and Ryan Dhal. People have taken the wrong path - Devs develop for Devs rather than the end user. Do you know the energy and carbon cost of the internet?
I hope the summery of the last decade of my life helps anyone who will inevitably feel loss, grief and maybe burnout. I am not sure what good dev said this first but #all good Devs feel impostor syndrome# - at some point- it is what keeps us learning and creating.