I started this blog on December 23, 2003. I was about to quit my job and my plan was to do some consulting.

The first post I wrote was an Automated Software Process Checklist. My plan was to help people automate engineering processes. At the time, daily builds with automated tests and deployment was not common, but I had been doing it for a few years at Droplets (inspired by eXtreme Programming Explained [affiliate] and similar books).

I posted fairly regularly for a few months, but then got a new full-time job. There were ebbs and flow over the next 17 years or so. I posted more when I was consulting/job hunting because more people were checking it out. When I went independent full time in 2021, I started posting a lot more. Seventy percent of the posts on this site were written since then.

Over the last 22 years, this blog has helped me get work, find a publisher, get invited to conferences and podcasts, and it’s a resource for me to know myself better. It doesn’t make money directly, but it’s been a force multiplier for my career.