Musings on Software, Simplicity and Craft
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Welcome to NuggetBytes.net! I am a Principal Technologist / Software Engineer with nearly 20 years of profesional experience.
Welcome to my blog. Here I will muse about software engineering, agile, and perhaps even review some books.
Why not? I like the name. One of my cats is called Nugget and lets say he likes to bite. Then nugget (tiny chunks) and bytes- I thought it was a clever little play on words that worked well together with the cat name reference.
Hey! it's never too late to start writing a blog! I have had many ideas for posts and for "series" of blogs that I have been wanting to write for a while.
I have a few ideas that I feel would be fun to write about. It is cheap to write a blog and it is cheap to host (many places to host for free). If anyone reads my blogs and enjoy, then better, but if not, I will mostly be using this as motivation to keep sharp and to get my hands dirty with side projects and to generally improve my writing.
Having made my way from Software Engineer to Principal Technologist, I am someone that enjoys writing Software, and also realises that there is much more to Software than writing code.
I enjoy the whole process. The blog will focus a lot about programming languages, design patterns and software process (ermm agile and not agile)
I would like to cover a broad range of topics related to software development.
Of course, AI/LLMs are everywhere right now. I don't have any plans to write about AI/LLMs, but who knows.
I will use AI to bounce ideas and to check my work. But all the content here, I can say is my own.
This site uses Quickblog to generate html from markdown files. Quickblog can run in Babashka or Clojure. Massive thanks to Borkdude for putting together this lovely blog static site generator.
I am using the almost classless LaTeX CSS framework. I loved using LaTex at uni, and LaTeX CSS really brings the readability of LaTeX to the web.
I don't use an IDE. I have always resisted using an IDE. I have always been a Vim person, and more recently NeoVim and Tmux. NeoVim and Tmux will likely feature as topics in some posts.
I am writing this mostly for myself, however, it is nice to see the traffic that has been coming through (especially if I hit the jackpot and get nice traffic from HN or Lemmy) - however, I don't want to use any tracking that does not respect users privacy. For this reason I have opted to use Cloudflare Web Analytics since according to them:
"Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics—for free"
Free, lightweight, accurate and privacy first! ticks all the boxes.
Hope you enjoy!
Published: 2025-12-22