Hi, I'm Nick. This is where I write about things.
It's been a very long time — way more than a decade I think — since I had a personal website that actually got maintained with any sort of regularity.
This means I am really out of practice.
In the intervening years, I've posted a few times at these places:
... but having my own site sounds fun for the first time in a long time. So here I am.
From As We May Think:
Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
Vanevar Bush’s prescient essay on the Memex, written in 1945.
This is true in many fields:
Robert Heinlein: Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
… software engineering in particular.