It Begins

My name is Gary. Welcome to my nascent blog.

Over the past 13 years I have done a lot of work I am proud of, but with very little evidence in the public sphere. Sometimes, this was due to the sensitive nature of my work. Other times, this was due to competitive disclosure constraints. Above all, I must admit, it was personal; I have simply always been resistant to the concept of social media and other forms of an identifiable online persona.

In my extracurricular time, the work I would produce was most often more IP for the company I was working for. Or it may have been tooling specific to our internal development process. Or documentation and proof of concepts along the same lines. Sometimes, it would even be just and only for myself to see if I could do it and add a useful skill to my kit.

Repeatedly, after-hours I would produce tools or write up independent research which was published not on my own site, not on my social media, but on internal knowledge bases and chat rooms or hosted directly on company infrastructure. Most of it is now lost to time. What still exists is out of my reach. None of it, at any point, was mine to share; it was produced as a gift of time and effort to the company and my colleagues of the time.

This tiny site is my first step in recovering lost ground and creating the record I wish I started a decade ago. To have something to point to, and look back on, and reuse. Here I will capture the product of my own time, for my own satisfaction.

Ideally, it will also be of at least some small value to you, whichever wandering soul is taking the time to read this.

Thank you for your interest. Expect great things.