Hey, everybody. I’ve been torn lately between tweaking my blog habits to provide more relevant content for my technical blog audience and tweaking it to provide less of the nuts and bolts technical content for my non-technical friends and family.
I ultimately decided that I have enough content in me to sustain both, but that I should separate it into two blogs. As I was considering what the right focus should be for my technical blog, I realized that one of the most common threads in all of my favorite technologies is that they have some platform component that makes it easy to take what they’ve done and build on top of it. (See below for the rundown of my favorite technologies—you’ll see what I mean.)
Once I internalized that platforms fascinate me, it didn’t take much reflection to realize they have very broad appeal—in large part they’re the stuff that makes mash-ups work, the stuff that enables people to do unexpected and amazing things with Twitter, and the stuff that makes the Internet tick. They’re essentially the legos that we techies build toys (and even businesses) out of as adults.
My intent for apiguy.com is for it to be a good place to watch for news of interest to my fellow platforms geeks, tips on how to build the ideal data platform onto your application or how to use existing data platforms to make your app better, and a space for me to share the recipes that I use to cook up some fun toys using some of the platforms that are out there in the world.