I have been editing the next science fiction book. The plan is to hire an editor to go through it as well, since the previous books made enough income to pay for that. Editing will be the first service I pay for in my self-publishing journey. If things continue to go well, I might start buying proper on-market covers as the next step (but I also really like designing my own covers, so we’ll see…it’s just that I know nothing I come up with will be as good as a professional cover designer in my genre).

It feels like just yesterday I got my first job in game dev back in Australia, but it’s been about 14 years! I feel like I’ve done a little bit of everything, and was very fortunate to have gotten to grow as an SE on the job while working with different languages, frameworks, and teams. I guess the main phases of the last 14 years have been:

It feels like just yesterday I got my first job in game dev back in Australia, but it’s been about 14 years! I feel like I’ve done a little bit of everything, and was very fortunate to have gotten to grow as an SE on the job while working with different languages, frameworks, and teams. I guess the main phases of the last 14 years have been:

I’ve tried quite a few blogging platforms over the years: Wordpress, Squarespace, even Ghost at some point, I think.

I opted for self-hosting years ago, always on S3, first via Octopress and now (and for the last few years) Hugo.

I’ve tried quite a few blogging platforms over the years: Wordpress, Squarespace, even Ghost at some point, I think.

I opted for self-hosting years ago, always on S3, first via Octopress and now (and for the last few years) Hugo.