This site is now continuously tested and deployed to an S3 bucket with CircleCI. This is somewhat of a test post. I’ve taken a very serious interest in DevOps recently and I’m looking to write more about that in the near future.

After taking a few programming courses this semester, as well as TAing a course, I have advanced greatly as a programmer. I also received some advice from an experienced programmer at a BAyPIGgies event that in order to make a career out of programming, one must specialize.

Today is the first day of the fall quarter at Foothill and De Anza Colleges. This semester, I signed up for a few programming courses to help prepare myself for real-world applications of programming. I am taking Introduction to Linux and Python for Programmers. For the most part, I don’t think I will learn very many new things in the Linux course, as I’m pretty comfortable using the terminal on my Mac. I am taking it anyways because it will lead into a more advanced shell programming course.

Earlier this semester, I became a teaching assistant at City College of San Francisco. The course I am teaching is CS 110A, an introduction to programming course with Python as the language of instruction. It has been a mostly positive, but challenging experience. One of the challenges being that I am the most knowledgeable person when it comes to programming and Python in the room.

After several days of confusion and despair, I’ve finally gotten this blog up and running using AWS S3, Route 53, and CloudFront. The main benefit at the moment is that it will cost me a third or less of what I was paying for hosting before. Another benefit that will come into play when this blog inevitably has millions of readers, is that it’ll scale to meet the demand automatically. Also, issuing SSL certificates was much more straightforward using AWS Certificate Manager.