The Carry On Life

Delivered from Delivery

This weekend has been the first one I’ve had to myself in over two years. I finally quit my job delivering pizza and am doing web development full time. I consider this a landmark achievement in my career, as I’m finally doing the work I’ve chosen for myself and learned to do. This semester still has my schedule quite slammed, but I’ve freed a large chunk of my time and energy. Consequently, I’m now setting myself a rigid posting schedule of every Sunday. I’ve tried to set quotas for myself like at least one post per week, but without the definite time, I put it off and end up never posting. One post per week is not much, but it’s certainly doable with my schedule, and I’ll consider doing more after this semester is over.

I’ve also been thinking about the scope of this blog. I’m still trying to develop my voice, and I’m beginning to think that it will be markedly more techie than many of my peers. I’ve no experience in affiliate marketing, and I no practically nothing about writing and selling a successful book. I write code. Developing that skill and sharing it with others excites me. I also care immensely about traveling. Ergo, I’ll be carving out my niche with a combination of these. I think from now on, I won’t hesitate to include more tech-related content here. We’ll see who finds it relevant.

As my first code-related mention, a project I’ve been working on lately is on GitHub. It’s a PHP framework I call Trestle. It’s not very far along, but I’m making progress. I’m keeping it open source, and I’m hoping that it will become useful enough to use for developing some valuable tools later on. I’ve got a few ideas in mind for it.