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I don’t always update my blog…

Máté Varga — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:21:17 +0000

…but when I do, I prefer yearly updates.

Oh. Hello there.

Máté Varga — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:52:20 +0000

Let this post mark the beginning of yet another probable lapse in updates which are soon to follow! I suppose since I went through all this effort to create this blog/website, I may as well take a few moments to update it, right? …Hello? Hey wait a minute, there is nobody here…

Nonetheless, I thought that since I’m here anyway, I may as well give a brief summary of what is going on and what I have planned – albeit not very exciting plans. If you’re still reading this, I suggest you take up a hobby. I digress…

The Past

While my original plan involved writing a crap ton of technical articles and creating other content-related thingies, I had diverged slightly…and fell off the face of the planet. I had try to revive my motivation by posting a “Haha, how about them content?” post back in February but things/life kind of got in the way (I apologize, Internet). I had silently buried the existence of this website to the back of my mind thinking, no…believing it would update itself automatically. Imagine my surprise when I found that wasn’t how blogs work at all…

Sometime around the middle of March, I had joined TiVo as a Sr. Software Engineer and had been spending a lot of my personal time warming up to their rather complex build and development environment. Also, due to things like NDAs and mechanical heat-seeking lawyer grenades, work isn’t something I can blog too much about. Like, I can’t tell you about things such as the Make Dinner feature we’re…oh…oops…

The Present

Now that things are mellowing out a bit, I’ve been doing a bit of weekend/after-work tinkering again. While I admit that I’ve been a bit disorganized with what I’ve been focusing on, my plan is to create a workflow that I can start following. One of those tasks will involve dedicating time to updating my blog – hopefully with actual content and not just “hah, yeah…I’ll write content someday…you’ll see…”

Okay, I may have also played a few video games on the weekend. (Replaying Half Life 1/2).

The Future

Sometime between now and the Great Robot War, I plan to do the following:

Create a workflow which will allow me to organize my personal time.
Document what I’ve been working on in my blog (I may have said this before…).
[write step 3].

My first project which I plan to document here will be Elixir – my virtual/theoretical CPU architecture. I’ve already written the datasheet (which I’ve been cleaning up a bit recently) and I’ll be posting updates about my progress with the assembler and compiler.

Anyway, here’s to me maybe, possibly updating this blog and doing what I said I will. Cheers.

Not Dead Yet

Máté Varga — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:51:43 +0000

Okay, so I may not have written any updates since…err…November, but I’m here to try and get the ball rolling again. My original plan was to write a technical article or a tutorial every week, but too many obligations/problems got in the way. Now with things settling down (kind of), I’m going to give this blog another go.

I doubt that anybody besides people Googling my name will read this, the least I can do now is show some signs of life.

Full Speed Ahead!

Máté Varga — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:32:54 +0000

It would appear, I’m (just about) ready to go public. Now with the site template coding and skinning out of the way, I should now be able to focus entirely on content. I’ll be passing around the URL on a limited-release basis to get some feedback about the looks, navigation and any browser bugs. From my own testing (FF 3.5, IE6, 7, 8), I think this site should work with the majority of browsers out there – it is W3C complaint after all (not that it means anything to IE).

Topic Hierarchy

I wanted to partition the blog into different top-level categories where each category is tied to the page being viewed. You’re currently reading this post under the “Home” category’s General topic group. If you were to switch to the projects or articles page, you’ll only see the posts under their respective top-level category pages (Projects & Articles). So, this makes the site map look somewhat like this:

Home: Typical blogging topics, such as general, news, politics, technology, etc.
Projects: Project “micro-blogs” for each project I’m working on.
Articles: My professional opinion/insights into the various technical topics I’ll be writing about.

Demographic

Primarily, this is a technically-oriented blog. As such, I will be posting a lot of heavy-duty technical information aimed at software engineers. With that said, this is also my personal blog, so I will be posting about not-so-technical opinions and articles here (including politics). Buyer beware, I’m liberal-minded and I share many of the views of my fellow liberal, left-wing thinkers – not saying I don’t have an open mind, though. So, if you like any of these kinds of topics:

Computer Technology (Hardware, Software).
Software Engineering.
Robotics.
Politics.
Lime-Jello.

…you may like this site.

Welcome Aboard!

Máté Varga — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:57:08 +0000

Welcome Aboard, Internet User! You have reached the website of Máté Varga (as you may have noticed from the prominently displayed point-55 font in the header! Take a look. I’ll wait). If you’re reading this NOW, you’ve probably arrived here by Googling my name. If you’re reading this in the future, well, you have a very impressive set of skills.

I’ve created this website for three reasons: 1) Enhance the Googability of my name for employment, fame, fortune and free candy, 2) have a place where I can write articles that, maybe, some people may find useful, and 3) have a place to share my projects.

Well, now that we have become acquainted, Internet User, hopefully my efforts will prove to bring you back for more. Or something.