I recently deleted my Atlassian accounts and migrated all my code from Bitbucket to GitHub. This was for a couple of reasons, but bottom line I am just finished with Atlassian as a company. Their business model is horrible, and they are just not worth it anymore. On the upside, GitHub is pretty much the de facto standard for Git, and Bitbucket is more of a niche at this point.

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I am launching a dedicated website that is going to be just for documentation that I have created over the years, and for all documentation that I will be creating going forward. It uses Hugo and Netlify just like this website, and GitHub for hosting the Git repository. I have decided to make the repository for the website public, so anyone can download it if they want.

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I have received several emails lately from people who have purchased my Practical Guide to PKI with Windows Server book and from people who have been downloaded my free guide on the same subject. There isn’t a problem with this, I am glad that people are reading both publications and have questions about it, but I wanted to set expectations with people whenever they have questions about it.

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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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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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Once again, I made a promise to myself that I would post a lot more often to this site, but once again a lot of things got in the way, and I wasn’t able to get as much done as I hoped. I was doing very well in the earlier part of the year, but after the middle of April I ran into a lot of issues that prevented me from focusing my attention on the site.

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