Versatile software engineer with a background in .NET consulting and CMS development. Working on regaining my embedded development skills to get more involved with IoT opportunities.
I keep lots of notes. Some of which I host to host to the public in the short future. So I always have detailed notes on how some random protocol works, what I learned the hard way about an exception, etc.
There are situations where Google isn't available. If you have sysadmin duties, and the Internet fails and chaos ensues, you may need to at least know enough console-fu to assign yourself a static IP address, set up static routes to the gateway, and proceed from there.
When part of my job was field technician, Google was sometimes an option, sometimes not. I do not inspire public confidence when I have a traffic cabinet open at an intersection and I am sitting there Googling "how to connect conflict monitor unit." If I was running wires, I was always terrified of touching my phone because I wanted to stay safely grounded to the cabinet.
Also, at some point you realize that you don't need any credentials to post things on the Internet. There are blog posts I read and I want to reach out to the author urgently and beg them to remove this from their code before something bad happens...but sometimes people need to learn the hard way (assuming lives are not at risk or it's a security thing).
I keep lots of notes. Some of which I host to host to the public in the short future. So I always have detailed notes on how some random protocol works, what I learned the hard way about an exception, etc.
There are situations where Google isn't available. If you have sysadmin duties, and the Internet fails and chaos ensues, you may need to at least know enough console-fu to assign yourself a static IP address, set up static routes to the gateway, and proceed from there.
When part of my job was field technician, Google was sometimes an option, sometimes not. I do not inspire public confidence when I have a traffic cabinet open at an intersection and I am sitting there Googling "how to connect conflict monitor unit." If I was running wires, I was always terrified of touching my phone because I wanted to stay safely grounded to the cabinet.
Also, at some point you realize that you don't need any credentials to post things on the Internet. There are blog posts I read and I want to reach out to the author urgently and beg them to remove this from their code before something bad happens...but sometimes people need to learn the hard way (assuming lives are not at risk or it's a security thing).
99% of the content I make is intended to work like a journal. I'm writing to remind myself of things or try to process my thoughts.