Introductions

Everything has a beginning, like my blog here. This post is a small introduction about me and even smaller amount on the topic of blogging. I’m researching blogging for the Red Hat Accelerator program of which I’m a member of. This link here is very tiny description from Red Hat on the program. By the way, I also like photography, and I took this iconic San Francisco photo while at the 2018 Red Hat Summit.

We “Accelerators” are not employees of Red Hat, but we’re a collection of expert geeks or nerds (there is some overlap, I’m sure), that had to interview for the program. My blog’s intention is to discuss blogging and technical Linux things.

I’ve been working with computers since the 1980s, and have extensive experience with Windows Servers/Workstations, then I graduated to UNIX, and that led me to Linux. This led me to focus on Red Hat Linux and CentOS. I was once a speaker at the Red Hat Summit in 2014 which was quite an honor. I’ve been actively involved in the Red Hat discussion forum. Go figure, I work professionally with Red Hat and CentOS products.

Blogging is quite popular, and many have things to share. My focus will mostly be technical. Those in the Red Hat Accelerator program have some things to share, so some of us blog and it’s spreading. Some of us have already written blogs, or done documentation to some degree professionally.

I’ve written huge websites for various organizations, and documentation for technical support centers. For web development, I started with notepad, went to Dreamweaver, then transitioned to writing and maintaining sites with vi/vim and later doing mass edits with sed. I was one of those guys who cared about HTML/CSS standards compliance too. I have previously taught HTML and CSS (code only, not graphical interfaces) as a class as well.

Blogging has many topics. Do I get my own domain name and how? Which domain or blog host is good (or good for me)? What about content, style, social media, paid sites or free? There are a lot of topics. Medium seems to have some noteworthy merit with a paywall. Some may debate this, but I hope Medium has success with their example. There are obviously other choices, WordPress (even Cisco uses them), Blogger, Ghost, or even host your own on blog your own server. What works for one person may not work for another.

I used to have a website many years ago named codemoose.com, so that’s why I have “CodeMoose” in my username here at Medium. (I no longer own codemoose.com, and I’m not paying $4700 to reclaim it). If you google codemoose now, there’s a tremendous amount of distractors (and overwhelmingly not me). I picked it at the time because I thought it was funny, and apparently others thought it was funny too and people began using it. Sure, that’s fine. Anyway, I lived in Alaska and moose are interesting creatures.

My next posts will involve exploring the things surrounding blogging.

While I am not a representative of Red Hat and my views about Red Hat are just my own, I am a member of the official Red Hat Accelerators community, which gives me the connection to Red Hat and through which I engage with other RHA team members.