I wanted to drop a post and tell everyone that I’m still around and this blog is still active. After I moved to Utah hiking consumed my summer months. My wife and I are filling our bucket list! We also bought a new house, so it’s been time consuming to repurchase everything that we needed to make the house livable. Flashback: My wife and I moved from Maryland in 2019. When we got an estimate for moving, the bill came in around $10,000. We got creative and ditched our old furniture, power tools (garage sale), shelves, books, junk in closets, exercise equipment (metal donation had free curb-side pickup). We reduced our moving cost to $3,000. We setup an apartment before driving across the U.S. because we had never been to Salt Lake City before. During that year in the tiny apartment, we looked for a house, then ended up buying a custom built home by Hamlet Homes. It took them about six months to build the house, and we moved again. After that, we were in a huge house with little furniture. Ah, good times.
Of course, COVID hit while we were waiting for the house to be built. My wife and I are both C#/.Net software engineers and our companies put us on full-time remote at the beginning of March of 2020. In March I also published by first Science Fiction book that I wrote as a challenge from the NaNoWriMo contest. Writing SciFi has turned into yet another hobby of mine. Anyone reading this post is probably smiling and nodding to the fact that each hobby takes an enormous amount of time.
I still work full-time in the industry with some of the latest technology. I’m involved in .Net Core 3.x (soon to be version 5), docker, Microsoft Azure cloud technologies, Octopus, Git, Redis, RabbitMQ, React and VS/VS Code. The comments on this blog are sent to my email address, so I get notified immediately. I usually answer them as quickly as I can, but sometimes I don’t see the email. If you’d like to email me directly use: frank@decaire.net.
I also try to keep my Git repo updated if there is a security warning. My front-end code seems to get hit the most with security flaws in various NPM packages. I don’t test the code I post on GitHub on a regular basis. Some of my oldest posts probably have code that doesn’t work anymore. If you convert the code to a newer version of .Net or Core and want to link your Repo back to my blog (with full credit and linkage to your blog if you’d like), then email me with your information and I’ll coordinate a post update with you.
Finally, even though I’m not currently creating new posts, I plan to keep this blog around for as long as possible. I also maintain two other blogs: My hiking blog is hiking.frankdecaire.com and my book blog is galacticcorebooks.com.