To start off, 2021 went much better than 2020 for me. Even though COVID-19 is still a worldwide problem and the pandemic is far from over, I was able to accomplish a lot more than I though I would. This was both professionally and personally.

I recently migrated this website from the WordPress platform to Hugo. I wanted to go into details on why I made the decision to change CMS platforms, and what the process was for completing the migration. Changing hosting providers is usually a non-issue and can be performed with proper planning and a pre-determined cutover date, but migrating from one platform to another requires a lot more time and effort to complete successfully and there are always minor issues as a result.

I wanted to go into the details on why I wrote this book and focus on what I learned while writing it. I will also go into the details on the process of writing the book and what tools I used. Writing a book was definitely much harder than I ever thought it would be, but I wanted to document the process as best as I could should other people be interested in doing the same. As difficult as it was, I would certainly do it again now that I know what to expect.

Now available for sale, the book version of the Building a Certificate Authority in Windows Server 2019 guide that I published in early 2020. The guide has been greatly expanded and includes many additional details and steps that were not included in the original guide.

So to start off, COVID-19 just completely messed up all of my 2020 plans. This is both with my professional plans as well as my personal plans.

I posted an article about using Visual Studio Code with LaTeX earlier this year and I wanted to do a follow-up with some of the additional extensions that I have been utilizing, as well as some of the extra configuration items that I have been using as I have made this environment my primary LaTeX editor.

It has been a rumour for many years that Apple was finally going to ditch Intel and use their own custom processors in all of their devices, the exact same ones that they have been utilizing in their iOS devices for the last few years.

To say that 2020 has not been going well would be a big understatement. The COVID-19 Pandemic came out of nowhere and it has rapidly disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Entire countries were and still are under full or partial lock down, air travel is virtually non-existent and manufacturing is seriously impacted. I won’t even get into the economic repercussions since that will take a long time to determine once the Pandemic is finally over.