Is this thing on?

Since going sober, and rediscovering my spirituality, I’ve become more attuned to synchronicities and intuition. Of course, my mind has a 40-year habit of suppressing those, and it still offers up plenty of resistance.

Great. What’s that got to do with this blog?

Several times over the past year, it’s been suggested I start a blog. Or, more recently, the question tends to be more do I have a blog? There’s a shift towards an assumption.

Another nudge from the universe was two colleagues feeling enthused to start blogging again. In some part at least, inspired by the changes and reinvigorated flow we’re finding as we work together on utterly embracing Laravel.

So here we are. My first post here was ten years ago, and I wrote “I enjoy writing”. Sorry, intuition.

The second shift is why I’ve picked this up again though. I’ve gone from “I don’t have time to write a blog”, to “I don’t have time to NOT write a blog”.

I’ve big plans for 2026. When joking with friends that I can finally see the light at the end of the seven tunnels I’ve constructed, the reaction tends to be agreement, rather than disbelief. I feel the acceleration. The skin is shedding, time to gallop.

Which means that, as much as I increasingly enjoy networking (wutttttt? says some previous version of me) and repeatedly sense (hello again intuition!) I’ve a tech-conference talk in me, that doesn’t scale.

Time to broadcast and start conversations. This dusty blog will do for now, lined up as a spec-driven move to GitHub Pages I imagine. An email newsletter feels right too, less so socials for now…