Hello, I'm Russ, and this is my website. I'm a software engineer who programs for the love of the craft in an age of tech disillusionment. The purpose of this site is to give me a place to publish my thoughts in general and on programming, personal projects, and professional developments.
Publish Date: 2026-07-18
It's been two weeks in a row that I've not had the energy to put together the blog model. Why might that be? Two reasons come to mind.
The first is that requirements and design takes extra effort from me. I can do it and think I'm reasonable at it, but I concede that it's draining work.
The second and probably most realistic reason: my 'after-hours' time is mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. Spending those precious moments writing a blog article takes away time to design and make enhancements to my projects. The purpose of the blog is to drive that work, not encumber it.
So, for that reason I intend to back off on my writing. Let's go down to publishing on the third Saturday of the month. Site spec updated. In the meantime, I'm going to flesh out the blog database model, ORM model, and functionality. Hopefully when I post next on August 15, I'll have something better to say.