Is 2022 over already? I don’t have a lot to talk about, but this was the first year that has felt like normal since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

I recently deleted my Atlassian accounts and migrated all of my code from Bitbucket to GitHub. This was for a couple of reasons, but bottom line I am just finished with Atlassian as a company. Their business model is horrible, and they are just not worth it anymore. On the upside, GitHub is pretty much the defacto standard for Git, and Bitbucket is more of a niche at this point.

I am launching a dedicated website that is going to be just for documentation that I have created over the years, and for all documentation that I will be creating going forward. It uses Hugo and Netlify just like this website, and GitHub for hosting the Git repository. I have decided to make the repository for the website public, so anyone can download it if they want.

I have received several emails lately from people who have purchased my Practical Guide to PKI with Windows Server book and from people who have been downloaded my free guide on the same subject. There isn’t a problem with this, I am actually glad that people are reading both publications and have questions about it, but I wanted to set expectations with people whenever they have questions about it.

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.

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.