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Retroactive dev diary #1

Well, there I was, thinking I was going to do several dev diary entries about the small little game that I've been programming, and now here I am, making one when I already have a stable build. Although I already have improvements in mind, I should have documented my process from the beginning. So suffice it so say, I'm a Gen-X'er (of the Xennial micro-generation), and I grew up with home computers and gaming systems such as the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo & Sega Master System. However, my first experience with home computers, programming and gaming was on the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer . The computer was at my grandparents' house, where I walked every Thursday and Friday after school. Suffice it to say, there were games available for the computer that were stored on cartridges. One of those games near and dear to my heart was one called Tombstone City: 21st Century . It was an odd concept for a game (blasting al...
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Cue the Whitesnake!

Well, here I am, and here I go (again).... I've had a long career in technology up to this point, and sometimes you wonder what direction to go in, even though you want to stay in the same field, maybe even the same industry. I currently am a Senior Solutions Architect with IBM, and was part of an acquisition . I've worked in many industries and positions before then, from Help Desk Technician to Software Engineer to Senior SRE. Within IBM, you can specialize in any one of a number of specialties. But which one? My first exposure to computers was on a TI-99/4A back in the mid-80's. Since then, the interest hasn't waned although the focus might have, given market forces and current interests. My first exposure to DevOps was in 2014 when I was hired as a DevOps Software Engineer. From then on, future positions were mostly on the DevOps/SRE front, leveraging cloud providers from Linode to hyperscalers like Azure. From Ansible to AI, from Grafana to GitOps, from on-prem to ...
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