As I said in On writing as an obligation,
A few days ago I realized something. I don’t like writing.
which results in a blog being a strange format for me. While I like the idea of writing insightful articles, and have plenty of ideas for topics, I hate the actual execution.
What I've been doing instead of blogging is building automated systems. Whenever I sit down to blog I inevitably end up writing code instead.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Software development is a team sport, so any tool or process which helps individuals communicate better will improve the team’s performance. Images are an easy way to cut through confusion, and Greenshot makes image-based communication incredibly easy.
Greenshot is a free, light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows. Install it via Chocolatey from https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/greenshot. Once installed, Greenshot will sit in the background waiting to be used via hotkeys.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Software development is a team sport, so any tool or process which helps individuals communicate better will improve the team’s performance. Images are an easy way to cut through confusion, but it can be difficult to get a visual representation of your Azure Infrastructure. Providing this visual representation is very helpful in presenting or analysing your current state infrastructure, so here’s an easy way to generate it via a command line tool.
Azure Visualizer, aka ‘AzViz’ is a PowerShell module which automatically generates Azure resource topology diagrams as an SVG.
What you are reading is just my latest attempt at a blog and aspirations of regular writing. My life is littered with the remenants of unfinished projects, including multiple started-then-discarded blogs. I choose a host and a platform, struggle to write a couple of posts, and then abandon it. I could never understand why this could or should be the case, until I came across this post by Slava Akhmechet.
A few days ago I realized something. I don’t like writing.