A long overdue reset

It has been more than 5 years since I've last updated this blog. Going back and reading through the materials i find a lot of legacy and already forgotten tools and processes, some future mistakes and even some good long valued articles.

I decided to move all articles back to draft mode and will revise and re-publish those that are still relevant.

In the meantime, I apologise for the emptiness around here.

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