This is my 4th or 5th attempt at blogging in last 5 years and hopefully this post will be the first of more than one blog posts. I don't have any idea about what I'll be sharing here (maybe tech, maybe aviation, maybe business, maybe accouting or maybe something else) but I have high hopes that this will continue and I'll figure it out.
About Me
I am Tauseef, a full stack engineer who loves to build and ship software. I have been tinkering with technology since 2012 and have been professionally (when I started making money) building cool and not-cool software since 2018. Since 2020 I have been learning about business, finance, accounting, aviation and travel. I find all of this intriguing and fascinating.
Tech behind my portfolio website
The geek in me wants to share the tech behind my portfolio website of which the blog is part of. I originally built this website using NextJS + TailwindCSS and was hosting this on Cloudflare. Two months in and I decided to add the blog section but I wasn't sure if I wanted to have a separate backend for blog so I refactored to the OG stack - Laravel + React + InertiaJS + TailwindCSS + SQLite and was hosting on Hetzner using Ploi. Keeping up with traditions, after the refactor was complete I didn't work on the blog for another four months and by the time I got back at it (Early January), I had learnt about the generateStaticParams feature of NextJS which basically would allow me write blogs in markdown files without having to maintain a database. Anddddd I refactored it back to NextJS and that's what it's using now. The code is open-source tauseefsshah/tauseefsshah.com.
That's it for this blog, I have written more than I expected and will keep up with it :)