It's good to start expectations low for the first post. Commitment is hard, and you never know if a blog will actually continue far past the first few posts. Anyway, this blog is intended to record me as I self-teach web development. Follow along if you're on the same page. Luckily, I'm not really starting from scratch, at this point I've been working for 8 years. 3 of those years I've spent working in IoT. I've developed tools in MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW, Squirrel/C, and also done a tiny bit of node development, mostly to create an endpoint for my Electric Imp module post requests.

I used to focus primarily on hardware work, and my old blog talked nearly exclusively about digital signal processing (https://simonxu.wordpress.com/). I was also a lot less funny then. Now this will be my new blog. I'm using github pages with jekyll and I'm using a template someone else came up with (credit is on the bottom of the page).

Recently, I decided that hardware is too hard, and thus begins my switch. No guarantees. I'm going rock climbing.

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