For the past several years, this blog has been used as to provide helpful info to Web and Flash Developers. Basically, I would post solutions to problems that I couldn’t easily find elsewhere on the interwebs. It was just a place for developers to find resources to help with their day jobs.
There are several problems with this approach. First, the blog is a bit unfocused because it tends to reflect whatever I’m doing at my job. So, I have tips for WordPress, Flash, HTML, PHP, javascript, etc… I work with a lot of different technologies and I tend to post about whatever I’m working with at the moment. Another issue is that this type of blog works best with long, tutorial style posts. I’m a pretty busy guy these days and I just don’t usually have the several hours it takes to create a long tutorial. So, a lot of really great posts never get finished. I have unfinished drafts of tutorials for Drupal, CreateJS, and a wide variety of other things because I just don’t have the time to finish them. I also only post something about 6 times a year because of the time required to generate something worthwhile.
Well, it’s a new year and I’m going to take things in a new direction. Instead of being just about web development, Wasted Potential will be about indie game development, old-school gaming, electronics hackery, and related stuff (or even unrelated stuff that I find interesting). I’ll still post solutions to developer problems, but it will no longer be the main focus. It’s going to be a bit more personal and hopefully more interesting for me and everyone else.
I’m going to start by posting more often about what I’m doing in my spare time, as well as cool things I see other people doing. I also hope to roll out a new design for the site in the next few months. Stay tuned.