Five Twenty Five Twenty Five Update

Today is May 25, 2025. I wrote my first blog post in 2022. That first How-To was written while I stood up this website. My motivation came from #100Devs, which I convinced my sister to do with me. I already had a programming background but hadn’t done much with node.js at the time. One of the things Leon from 100devs recommended was doing a codewars challenge every day and pushing to your github repo.

It’s great advice, but I didn’t do it. Part of the problem was that I was already employed and my motivation to do the jobs program he was offering was very low. I stuck with it a little longer than my sister did, but we both ended up with better jobs unrelated to Leon’s program. I removed most of the Codewars posts I had because Codewars explicitly asked Leon to stop encouraging his students to post solutions online, so I decided to comply.

The point I’m trying to make is that I made the blog with the intention of helping others learn, but as life went on and I continued to grow at my 9 – 5 job, the blog fell to the wayside. I’ve added a handful of new posts this past month and I plan on continuing to document my home network/lab as I get back to using more than just Microsoft Server (That’s my day job), and since I can’t really share the coding I’m doing at work, I’m going to revisit some projects from the past couple years that also fell to the wayside.

If there’s anything you’re interested in learning about, or you have a problem you want me to work on, then please reach out. Leave a comment or meet me on Discord