Welcome to the blog!

Why write a blog?

For many years now I’ve been wanting to expand my social presence online. When I started my career, I thought I would go all in on LinkedIn - it felt like the right place since this was going to be about my career, right? At the time (mid-to-late 2010s), Medium was a still one of the most popular places for folks to write about techincal stuff. But something about Medium never really stuck with me. I had already started noticing a noticeable rise in fluff posting on Medium with the most basic articles being written and re-written by different authors. For someone looking to throw their voice out on to the internet, Medium felt like a bad bucket to put my apples in. Back then, I had thought I would do more with my LinkedIn and had used LinkedIn Pulse (now LinkedIn Articles) to post about some of the cool things I was learning. Check out this post from 2019!

But it didn’t last, mostly because I was already planning on starting my Master’s Degree in Computer Science in 2020. I was so excited when I got the acceptance, but we all remember what happened in 2020. In 2021, I finally arrived in sunny California, straight to Silicon Valley - the heart of tech. Years of watching the hit HBO show of the same name (which is still one of my favorite TV shows of all time!) had filled me with excitement. Unfortuntaly, during this time, writing about tech and what I was working on, was not exactly on my mind between my projects, quizes, and tests. Even then, I would sometimes look at my old LinkedIn posts and wonder if this where I would want to restart. But after a long time on inactivity, I was not sure. This was also the time I learned of tech twitter, and Hacker News, and several other tech communities that I would read about but not really interact. I’ve been a reader for a long time, but now more than ever, I feel there is a big need to interact with the communities you follow. You are only a partial participant being a reader (I believe Reddit calls this kind of person a lurker), but active participation in a community is what really makes you a part of it - in my opinion. Contributions matter, whether it is in the open-source projects you follow, or the Hacker News weekend projects people vibe-code these days.

I’ve found myself on one side of this fence for quite a while, feeling unsure about whether I’ll be consistent enough to actually have people read what I write. But I realize now that that is a fallacy, blogs are about putting your thoughts out there and letting go of expectations of what you might acheive from it - is the best way to make the barrier to writing smaller. This is obviously my anecdotal experience around this.

Zipping back to 2026, I’m finally launching my own website. And I intend to write more and more things here. Letting go of expectations of how long, detailed, or even useful it might be. I hope folks to find it an enjoyable read though!