Yes, yes, it has been too long since the last post. The internet has weighed in, and we have noticed.
Your friend and mine, Weiqi Gao, notes that "Nobody I know posts much any more".
The inimitable Nate Neff wrote to me with a succinct critique of my writings in the last year:
Your blog... sucks.
Well. On the evidence, assuming small, frequent updates are important (which is fair): guilty as charged.However, I don't consider this blog defunct at all; in fact, I often talk about "the glory days" from a few years back.
I've been grappling with writing an annual retrospective, now that I have been pursuing a new chapter for over a year. The trick here is that challenges and triumphs have been much more on the soft side of software: team dynamics instead of technical innovation. I wrote an article along these lines for the NFJS magazine back in April. The article drew on years of experience, but the inspiration originated in my new world.
As I write this, I realize that I'll have to shelve that post and simply post smaller chunks. Stay tuned! I'm still here.
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