Many moons ago, I used to write/blog a lot. I got started primarily writing about PowerShell and other SysAdmin types of things. As my career matured the blog came to include even more PowerShell, some DevOps and a lot of Microsoft Azure. On several occasions I would go deep down a rabbit hole on a specific technology (I am looking at you PowerShell Desired State Configuration!) for a period of time and just see where I ended up. I always really enjoyed when that happened.

Probably 4-5 years ago I began to write less and less until finally it had been almost 2 years since I had written anything. At that time I decided to just get rid of the blog entirely (I had been self-hosting the blog on Azure App Services) and save money since I wasn’t using it. In retrospect, that certainly isn’t one of the “smarter” things I have ever done (turns out these days quite a few people are interested in writing samples, of which I currently have none).

I have been on quite the personal and professional odyssey over the last couple of years, and somehow it has culminated today in the beginning of what I am calling the “90 Days of Blockchain Tech” project. I fell down the “Crypto” rabbit hole almost a year and a half ago now, and once I wrapped my head around what a blockchain was, how they worked, and the things they could enable, I was all-in. I’ve literally written nothing about the actual technology, which is something I am absolutely passionate about, until today.

• Why 90 days?

  • I don’t have an explanation other than that’s the number the Universe told me was the correct number.

• What am I going to cover?

  • I don’t really have a plan. I have some bookmarks. I have some resources. I am just going to see where the Universe wants to take me and enjoy the ride.

• What took so long?

  • Excellent question. All things in perfect divine timing.

Using mirror.xyz just seemed to make sense. I could have spun up another WordPress blog on Azure App Services (or done a similar thing on Amazon Web Services, just for a challenge), used Substack or Medium (which are certainly popular choices). My decision for using mirror.xyz mirrors (see what I did there?) what I intend for this entire 90 day project to be about: Getting hands on with the technology and sharing my experiences. It only made sense to use a platform that is utilizing the same technology that I am interested in.

Mirror.xyz has the ability to create Writing NFT’s (which is probably going to be the Day 2 post) and uses Arweave for data storage (which will be making an appearance in the project early on for sure) because I definitely want to explore how that data storage actually “works”.

From there, I have no actual plan. We will just see where the technology takes me :)

Many moons ago, I used to write/blog a lot. I got started primarily writing about PowerShell and other SysAdmin types of things. As my career matured the blog came to include even more PowerShell, some DevOps and a lot of Microsoft Azure. On several occasions I would go deep down a rabbit hole on a specific technology (I am looking at you PowerShell Desired State Configuration!) for a period of time and just see where I ended up. I always really enjoyed when that happened.

Probably 4-5 years ago I began to write less and less until finally it had been almost 2 years since I had written anything. At that time I decided to just get rid of the blog entirely (I had been self-hosting the blog on Azure App Services) and save money since I wasn’t using it. In retrospect, that certainly isn’t one of the “smarter” things I have ever done (turns out these days quite a few people are interested in writing samples, of which I currently have none).

I have been on quite the personal and professional odyssey over the last couple of years, and somehow it has culminated today in the beginning of what I am calling the “90 Days of Blockchain Tech” project. I fell down the “Crypto” rabbit hole almost a year and a half ago now, and once I wrapped my head around what a blockchain was, how they worked, and the things they could enable, I was all-in. I’ve literally written nothing about the actual technology, which is something I am absolutely passionate about, until today.

• Why 90 days?

  • I don’t have an explanation other than that’s the number the Universe told me was the correct number.

• What am I going to cover?

  • I don’t really have a plan. I have some bookmarks. I have some resources. I am just going to see where the Universe wants to take me and enjoy the ride.

• What took so long?

  • Excellent question. All things in perfect divine timing.

Using mirror.xyz just seemed to make sense. I could have spun up another WordPress blog on Azure App Services (or done a similar thing on Amazon Web Services, just for a challenge), used Substack or Medium (which are certainly popular choices). My decision for using mirror.xyz mirrors (see what I did there?) what I intend for this entire 90 day project to be about: Getting hands on with the technology and sharing my experiences. It only made sense to use a platform that is utilizing the same technology that I am interested in.

Mirror.xyz has the ability to create Writing NFT’s (which is probably going to be the Day 2 post) and uses Arweave for data storage (which will be making an appearance in the project early on for sure) because I definitely want to explore how that data storage actually “works”.

From there, I have no actual plan. We will just see where the technology takes me :)