Description

Short

Series of markdown entries regarding my work, which I hope to include on my personal site later.

Long

An updating list of blog-style entries regarding my ideas, thoughts, and developments on relevant personal, academic, and work-related pursuits and on important topics in the field/s I'm going into. This will allow me to track, monitor, archive, and share my relevant thoughts and activities in a simple, quick, and familiar way with very little overhead.

note: this is not a blog about my social life. I intend to use it primarily as a sort of work log

Background

I've toyed with the idea for a while of including some sort of blog element to my personal/professional site containing information relevant to my studies and professional pursuits.

I wanted something that would:

• be accessible anywhere
• update easily
• integrate with my existing release plan and process
• provide easy formatting without CSS (leveraging markdown)
• be decoupled from its representation on the site
• be readable and coherent before it's totally hosted
• require very little overhead or learning, but be extendable

Rationale

I chose a github repository because:

• I can log in and write easily from anywhere - even on my mobile device.
• it's easy to automate the updates (travis CI, jenkins, etc.)
• that's where I do most of the work I'm going to describe anway
• github markdown is familiar, preview-able, and well-supported
• can restrict this repo to only the text (model)/formatting (view) and not the control
• browsing through github defaults to rendered view, easy to use tools locally (e.g atom) as well.
• usable out of the box, but open to more complicated features with Issues and TravisCI

Plan

• determine a json schema to improve the existing tags:[] only one going right now (embedded and from the naming/metadata)
• go through and ensure that all of them have the embedded tags
• create an aggregator script to generate a blogs.json for atla5.github.io consumption ;]