Back From Hiatus

It has been several years since my last post. A lot has happened in the past 5½ years. This isn't a recap of all of life's events, but it does mark a certain turning point in my professional career.

My blog went defunct because the priorities in my life shifted. Life hasn't necessarily shifted again, but how I do development certainly has. One of the core themes I have embraced with the advent of AI assisted software development is that the ROI for developing something has dramatically increased, if for no other reason than the cost to produce code has had a corresponding decrease.

I used the Cactus static site generator for my blog and it was already long in the tooth in 2020, but by then the macOS app I used had long since gone defunct and I could not install it anymore. The incentives to get it working again without the app rapidly diminished because my blog is not a revenue generator. With agentic AI, the economics changed and I was up and running with a full conversion in a matter of minutes. I didn't need to hand code a parser or do anything on my part, except tell Codex what I wanted to do. Voilà: site converted and now it's auto publishing.

I don't know how often I will be publishing, but this much I do know: it will be more frequent than once every 5½ years.