content creator wanna be

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+title:  "Content creator wanna-be"
+date:   2024-06-03 06:08:27
+categories: [post]
+tags: []
+summary: "I am wondering I finally figured out how to use shippingbytes.com . I
+often tried to be a content creator by night but I can't stick to it, as I can
+stick with anything. I am not sure if this time will be nay different but let's
+try."
+changefreq: monthly
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+I am where I am because of open source. Twelve years ago when I started my
+first full time job position I didn't know much. I got hired as solo developer
+for an internal CMS for a laboratory. An application on top of Postgres to
+register and manage tools.
+
+Anyway this is not the point, I didn't know much, after a few days writing
+spaghetti code I realized that I was not going anywhere so I opened IRC, I
+joined the PHP channel and I started asking questions. Somebody picked them up
+and I realized that near my place we had a PHP Meetup where I finally found
+somebody with a proper team who hired me, my contract ended and I joined a team.
+
+TLDR open source is what made me the developer I am, not because I write the
+tip of the iceberg, not because my code seats for 99% of open source code
+written by somebody else but because of the community I was surrounded since
+day one.
+
+I already had a blog, 12 years ago I was 19 and my blog was mainly about tech
+news because I was not a developer, I didn't have much to share of my own.
+
+But blogging turned to be crucial for my career as a developer, a little bit as
+giveback and also because I need to [be
+findable](https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/be-findable). I live in a
+country where salary don't stay up to date with inflation, figuring my way out
+to it makes a difference.
+
+All of this to say that I enjoy writing tutorials or lesson learned about
+operations, development, monitoring but not here, on my personal diary because
+I don't think they belong to here. I end up not writing them, not giving back
+to the community I belong to.
+
+Also internet is a lot different compared to 12-15 years ago and I feel I need
+to prepare for something new.
+
+I can't stop thinking about what Chris Ferdinand is doing with
+[GoMakeThings](https://gomakethings.com/), I am not a frontend eng and to be
+host I didn't find an area or a technology that I felt in love with like
+frontend looks for Chris (I hope you will find somebody that will look at you
+like Chris writes about frontend!), but I like to read what he writes, I am not
+sure consultancy will be for me but I like the place he developed for itself
+and I feel like it is time for me to figure out where to share what I learn
+about delivery, cloud, containers, CI and so on. Things that don't fit to this blog.
+
+I have [shippingbytes.com](http://shippingbytes.com) sitting around for a while
+and I am thinking about using it for this purpose, in a world where GenAI
+steals from knowledge owner to serve anonymous answers  I am thinking about
+starting a my content creation journey.
+
+I am not good at all when it comes to timing. This is why I need your support,
+your support and empathy.
+
+I also want to experiment with something that is not a static site generator
+because content creators needs their own tools. First version of this blog was
+Joomla, ShippingBytes right now runs locally as custom theme for Wordpress.
+
+I know you didn't expect that but what if wysiwyg will spark joy? And I know
+ShippingBytes will have a newsletter, a database will be useful anyway, static
+site is not enough.