Hi there! Yeah, you! My one trusty reader (honestly I don’t have any stats but I don’t think I have that many readers). Sorry if I surprised you by popping up in your feed again, I bet you assumed this was another dead blog.
But no, it is apparently Blaugust.
What? Yeah I know, it sounds a bit like the sound the dog makes when it ate too much too fast. But it’s this great thing where people join and commit to blogging (more) during August. I’d like to thank Juha-Matti “Juhis” for introducing this to me, he also wrote the great explanation linked above. If you want to learn more check it out.
Either way, because as I’m a late starter and I have not read any other posts than his, I’ll assume he knows that he is right when he says its customary to start with an introductory post.
Who am I?
My name is Gabriel. I’m not sure what I am but I work in infosec and have done so for many years. I’m old enough to have first gotten on the internet when you had to pay per minute, but I’ve been called an old man shouting at clouds since I was young.
Blaugust and I
My goal with Blaugust is just to write more, because practice makes perfect better. It’s something I’d like to do, but I have a tendency to put too high expectations on myself and end up doing nothing. This website’s subtitle even says “don’t let perfect be the enemy of bad” because I need to remind myself that practice makes perfect.
Things I hope to write about, in no particular order
- information security
- books which were important enough that I remember them
- rants about the state of technology
- technology tips and guidance
- life philosophy
And probably some other things, this list was made up half an hour before the deadline of the first post
If any of these seem interesting, then you can follow this years attempts using RSS, on micro.blog, by following me on mastodon or the old-fashioned way by typing in this address every day in the hopes that there will be a fresh new post waiting for you.