It’s been a long time since I had a side project, or one that didn’t get abandoned very early on. I tend to get sidetracked by other thoughts about computing, or think “while I’m doing this, I’m leaving that unsolved” so nothing gets very far.
In an attempt to address that, to clear all of the different thoughts I have about the matter of computing out of my head, organise them, identify conflicts, and prioritise what I work on, I spent this evening jotting down the big points and a brief abstract about each one. I’m hoping this will cut the Gordian knot by letting me see it all in one place and start to make choices.
The format I chose to represent this braindump is this personal Technology Radar, based on the Thoughtworks build-your-own tool. It seemed like a good place to see everything at once, and look for clusters or trends.
You’ll notice that almost everything in this radar is fairly old tech! That’s mostly a matter of taste, as I enjoy learning about things that were tried, what succeeded or failed, and what can be learnt from that to put to use today. I’m not good at novelty for novelty’s sake.
I expect to get some mileage (for my own benefit, you might like it too) out of expanding on some of the entries in this radar over a few more posts, so I’ve created a techradar category in this blog that you can filter on/out.
