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Developing this blog

Robin Riley

01 Jul 2018 — 1 min read

A quick post on developing the blog:

I'm slowly adding my notes from earlier learning opportunities - mainly these are notes from formal talks and lectures.
Turns out I have been capturing these notes on and off since 2010 so might take me a while to get up to speed
I'm trying to date the entries as per when the learning happened... so in some cases the entry date and publication date will be adrift by many years!
Soon I hope to start adding in more general learning points, for example personal reflections or post-activity retrospectives
I might also adopt a looser approach to capturing learning as I go *tips hat to Weeknotes*
As you can see I've stripped out any bells and whistles and gone for simplicity, readability and focus on written content.
And - if you're interested, I use a full WP install on some personal hosting provided by TSOhost. Currently a vanilla install of the "First" theme by Themehaus but I'll probably start tinkering with the code of that at some point.

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