In recent weeks I have been sharing more informal thoughts and in the upcoming weeks, there will be a period of greater radio silence.
After three decades as a professional, I am taking the entire summer off. This will be a chance to intentionally not sit at a desk, stare at a screen, look at my phone, read emails, read articles, and all those other work and personal related activities one does.
The ongoing drama between Wordpress v WP Engine continues to cross my reading list, but I have permanently removed WordPress from my website. I have finally transitioned away from the complex Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) stack required for self-hosting WordPress on my professional website.
Read moreI recently became aware of WeSQL . A MySQL-compatible database that separates compute and storage, using S3 as the storage layer. The product uses a columnar format by default which is significantly more space-efficient than InnoDB.
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