I have written about my obsession with ARM processors and why I have wanted one in a daily driver laptop many times before on this website. It has been something that I have wanted in a laptop for a long time, but unfortunately the hardware and software options were never quite there yet. I have tried many ARM devices over the last 10 years which promised that they could be a daily driver device, or at least something close to that. I was always disappointed with those devices, and I never really found something that worked reliably for me. As time went on, I realized that I really wanted an ARM-based device as my daily driver, regardless of the form factor.

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I have been collecting retro computers for the last few years, mostly replacing devices that I have owned since the early 2000’s that I have gotten rid of. I spent a lot of time moving around between 2004 and 2011, and I wasn’t always able to store things easily, so I got into the habit of traveling light.

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To start off, 2021 went much better than 2020 for me. Even though COVID-19 is still a worldwide problem, and the pandemic is far from over, I was able to accomplish a lot more than I thought I would. This was both professionally and personally.

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I recently migrated this website from the WordPress platform to Hugo. I wanted to go into details on why I made the decision to change CMS platforms, and what the process was for completing the migration. Changing hosting providers is usually a non-issue and can be performed with proper planning and a pre-determined cutover date, but migrating from one platform to another requires a lot more time and effort to complete successfully and there are always minor issues as a result.

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I wanted to go into the details on why I wrote this book and focus on what I learned while writing it. I will also go into the details on the process of writing the book and what tools I used. Writing a book was much harder than I ever thought it would be, but I wanted to document the process as best as I could, if other people are interested in doing the same. As difficult as it was, I would certainly do it again now that I know what to expect.

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Now available for sale, the book version of the Building a Certificate Authority in Windows Server 2019 guide that I published in early 2020. The guide has been greatly expanded and includes many additional details and steps that were not included in the original guide.

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So, to start off, COVID-19 just completely messed up all my 2020 plans. This is both with my professional plans as well as my personal plans.

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I posted an article about using Visual Studio Code with LaTeX earlier this year and I wanted to do a follow-up with some of the additional extensions that I have been utilizing, as well as some of the extra configuration items that I have been using as I have made this environment my primary LaTeX editor.

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