TLDR; I wanted to restart my presence on the web with a new handle and establish foundations for discover-ability, this is a list of what I did.url
- Start a new
Twitter
Account - Create a new
GitHub
/GitLab
Account - Create a new
dev.to
Account - Generate a new landing page via Vercel
Why?
I wanted to start fresh.
I wanted to be able to have a space and accounts that are unified under a common similar handle.
I wanted to be able to share/link this to my LinkedIn profule and establish a presence that could point to the "me" that is seen in professional settings.
I wanted to differentiate my presence on social platforms that was created at a different era/time in my life.
My other Twitter account was noisy and not curated or focused on software development entirely and with that came this mix.
I wanted less noise.
How?
Start a new Twitter
Account
I registered a domain, typingona.computer
, that is able to receive email and so I created a new Twitter
account (@mannyistyping) associated with that email address that would overlap across multiple platforms.
Create a new GitHub
/GitLab
Account
I went to both GitHub
and GitLab
and created an account using a similar username.
This provides a clean slate to start projects and also make decisions on how I want to organize them.
At the moment I am considering using a monorepo that would encompass all related projects.
Create a new dev.to
Account
Here we are! I am writing this on the new account to document my work and also provide a space to capture my thoughts, ideas, etc.
I am also looking at forem
and considering registering for that as well. (I have never used forem
and so I am unsure as how to use it!)
Generate a new landing page via Vercel
Using the newly created GitHub account, I went and registered for Vercel's personal account using the Next.js Blog Template.
http://mannyis.typingona.computer
And there we are!
The beginning to establishing a new Web presence on the internet.
What I plan to do next after writing this initial post on dev.to
is to start working on http://mannyis.typingona.computer so that I can either automate posts here to land there or posts there to land here.
#developer
#newbeginnings
#webpresence
#startingover
#devlife
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