Introducing the New sauerTek Website

Welcome to the new sauerTek website. As you can see, the website now features a blog. I have tried many times to start a tech blog, and have had numerous false starts. In thinking about the reasons why I never consistently write, I've come up with a few guideposts to hopefuly keep me focused and productive.

Content

I want the blog to be a lab journal, notebook, and archive. For the journal part, I want to record what I'm working on, tied to a specific time. I think this will help me stay motivated in my work and writing, because I find that I tend to undersell the things that I do and the time I spend on them. I also tend to forget a lot of projects, so hopefully I can use this journal as a reference.

As for the lab notebook part, I want to record useful things I learn through debugging. For example, I have a handwritten list of commands from when I was debugging graphics card issues. This blog would be a good place to store them, reference them, and share them with others.

The archive aspect is that I want to preserve third party resources here, so I can reference them quickly and ensure they are online if I need them in the future. Far too often I forget where I found information. Other times, I remember where I found it, but it is now offline. I need to think about publishing rights in this regard, but at the bare minimum, a useful like repository is a good start.

I want to avoid opionated or editorialized content. In my past experience, this kind of writing always feels embarrassing after a little bit of time. There's plenty of diatribes out there about bloated webpages, shallow trend chasing, middle management meddling, etc. I don't feel the need to contribute to it.

The best summary for what the blog content should be is "Focus on what you are doing, not what you are thinking."

Audience

The way that I am thinking about my target audience is that "I am writing for myself, in public." The rationale for this is similar to not writing opinion pieces; writing for an imagined audience tended to make my writing read like someone screaming into the void, which is not the tone I'm trying to achieve.

Tone

I want the tone to be first person informal, as is pretty obvious from this post. I will be using a lot of personal pronouns and slang. I hope, however, to still keep any scientific writing moderately rigorous in an effort to curtail opinion oriented pieces.

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