A little while ago, a co-worker decided to take it upon himself to setup a new Slack team. I’d been hearing good things about the communication app of choice for hipsters and startups, so I was intrigued and gave it a go. But what to write? There was some idle chit-chat and a bit of work related back and forth, but what it really needed was some sizzle!

Enter Thought of the day

Thought of the day started out with an in-depth pondering of the chucking capabilities of the average woodchuck. Another day I delved into an essay about how you needed to know what you didn’t know so you could know what to do to figure out what to know to know what you needed to know.

When I skipped a day, I was surprised to hear other members of staff saying they missed my thought. So I tried to make a bit of an effort.

Things took a more serious turn with a discussion of Jira tickets and how much information to include to make them useful, but not so specific as to rule out better solutions. At the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, I tried to wrap my head around the sacrifices made by soldiers who were really just kids.

Later I drew a parallel between a project’s popularity and the ability to get things done, siting the different approaches of the Angular 2 project and PHP, and highlighting the issues that changing the design of the 20p coin could cause.

So things have run the gamut.

So why start a site?

Good question, thanks for asking. I’m the kinda guy who loves technology and has a real interest in web development as well as history. Thoughts of the day in Slack were really just a place to do a quick mind-dump. But over the last few weeks, I felt that I wanted to expand on my thoughts and find a more permanent home for them.

So with a love of web development and passion for pondering, what better way to scratch both itches than to create a site to record my inane ramblings, whilst giving me a place to experiment with new tools and techniques?

So how is this going to play out?

Man, you are full of great questions! I plan to release a few Thoughts of the day a week, or really whenever the urge takes me. Some of these thoughts will be whitty one-liners. Others will be serious discussions of serious topics for serious people. Most will be little things that amuse me.

Tech-wise I’m going to start small. Version 1 will have only very basic features and look pretty crappy. But over time I plan to play about with some CSS techniques and look into pushing my posts to Slack, Facebook and Twitter, coz why not?