I’ve never blogged before, but I have recently decided I should for a number of reasons.

I don’t really exist on Facebook or Twitter which has led several people to insist to my face that I don’t exist. So far it hasn’t sparked any existential crises but as life becomes entirely mediated by machines I need some kind of digital proof of life or at some point I fear I will be denied a job, an apartment, or god forbid, a beer, all for want of existing.

Also I am just finishing up a period of medically induced isolation during which I grew a great big beard, learned a lot of functional programming concepts, and read some really great books. Unfortunately, I have hoarded this knowledge like Smaug’s processed wood pulp loving cousin. I have made many errors and missteps that I could have published and helped those who have since and will in the future make the same mistakes. As I continue to discover ways not to do things I will try to document them here while they’re fresh in my mind and most accessible to write about.

Finally, I want to take advantage of the immense power of Cunningham’s Law. We live in a wonderful time where people scour the internet in search of falsehoods and take time from their days to correct our wayward minds, and so I intend to share my experiences and each time either provide knowledge or receive it or some combination thereof.

All joking aside, I’ve recently been learning Clojure and it has been the first programming community that I really felt connected with. They’ve been nothing but awesome and unwittingly made an otherwise very solitary time less so, and I intend to give back what little I can.