My yearly tech stack review

I’m feeling compelled to start writing again, so writing about the programmer part of my life is a pretty easy place to begin.

Two things to know about me before I get started:

1. For my day job, I’m a Staff Software Engineer at the New York Times.

2. For the other part of my world, I work part-time on my “retirement business”, Daily Grains, with my partner in life and business Ashley.

You will likely be seeing things about tech and bakeries, but not necessarily mixing to the two. But who knows what I’ll get up to at this point. It’s too early to say. 

Nearly every year that I've been a developer since 1996, I take some time to survey the tech stacks I use as well as investigate any new technologies I am interested in exploring. This year, Generative AI is the central theme that is now at the center of my 2024 investigations.

I've completed enough research at the time of this writing to have settled on the stack I am digging into. The main goal it to support my typical need for some sort of content management system, an API I can build and expand for managing and processing a lot of interrelated data.

I plan on writing up a brief post on each item in my new stack as follow up post, but for now, here's the list:

I'm actually doing this more for my own benefit at the moment to consolidate my selections and record my reasons for posterity.

As I mentioned, I'm also trying to start up a writing habit again by making small posts here since centralized social media platforms are the devil's playground. 😏