Way back in May 2002, I posted my first blog post here.
I didn’t know what it would eventually become, but I just wanted to stake out a place online where I could write stuff, put it into a database, and have that database serve my stuff out to other people. Initially, it was a blog platform that I’d written myself, and then later I migrated it to Movable Type, then to WordPress.
I never would have predicted that it’d turn into a business, or a YouTube channel, an email list with tens of thousands of subscribers, or an open source toolkit that helps thousands of people manage their databases every month. I take that stuff for granted now, because it feels like it’s been this way forever, but it’s funny to go back and read those initial blog posts and see how much things have changed.
To celebrate, you can pick up my classes for a low low price today. See you in class!
