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+title: Building your own personal development platform
+description: I am going to start building a series called "The Workshop" where we are going to do what it takes to see what a personal development platform looks like, build our own, roll out services in production
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+date: 2024-01-29
+updates:
+  - time: 2024-01-29
+    description: first iteration
+tags:
+  - "#blog"
+---
+
+A personal development platform is to a craftsman what the workshop is. It is
+the place we come to tinker, relax, expand our skills, be frustrated, be happy,
+and spend too many ours on our own refining our skills and building our own
+sanctuary.
+
+There is nothing like kicking back in the chair, watching your own services get
+merged in git, built, deployed and finally be available to you and your users. I
+expect it to be the same as when a craftsman holds up a fixture that they made
+themselves using the CNC they themselves assembled. You can see all the flaws,
+but you're still satisfied with the tool and rely on it to do work. Nothing is
+perfect, a tool never it.
+
+To me, my personal platform is a labor of love, time and refinement. I've spent
+countless hours tinkering, solving problems, and just having fun. Again I should
+stress my platform will never be yours, never truly, you might see a snapshot of
+it, it is open source after all. But I constantly iterate, improve and pivot.
+Unlike a professional product it is never whole, or at least attempting to be.
+
+To expose my platform to you means that I'd have to curate it in a way to make
+it presentable. For even I sometimes get lost in the jungle that is my tools. As
+an engineer you will constantly build, and build, and build. It can sometimes be
+difficult to remember how a certain part works even if it was myself whom built
+it from scratch.
+
+# Sharing my platform
+
+I'd still like to attempt to share said snapshot of what my own workshop looks
+like, give you a little peak inside, have you play around with the tools a bit.
+Maybe do a project or two, then leave. Take the learnings back, and develop your
+own in your own image, with your preferred approach, maybe start with a few of
+mine, and continuously build on.
+
+So for the next few articles, I'll focus on key pieces of my own platform. We'll
+start with something basic, like hosting web servers and whatnot at home, until
+we gradually can deploy some services automatically from git. I've built all my
+tools on open source software, so you should be able to pick apart and replace
+parts as we go.
+
+Nothing should be as complicated that you couldn't just choose another
+programming language or application to do the same work. I'd even encourage it,
+choose whatever fits your needs and wants the best. Remember only work on the
+tools you need and want to build. If you don't find it fun building applications
+or tools, choose those tools from the open source library and built what you
+want on top of that.
+
+My own platform is built from the principle that I'd like a convenient way of
+releasing software to others, be they tools or services. That is because at work
+my role is a Platform Engineer, I spent far too many hours thinking about how to
+remove work from others, such that they can work on what they do best.
+
+You will have a different goal, you will not know it in the beginning, and you
+probably won't know it by the end, but you should get a taste of what you find
+most enjoyable and pivot from there. Sometimes my articles won't be picture
+perfect, so I expect you to go and tinker if you find a problem, or contribute
+it to the template repository either as an issue, or pull request.
+
+## The workshop series
+
+I will continue to develop this series of time, for now feel free to follow
+along or ask questions in:
+[https://discord.gg/vwNCMTSVxA](https://discord.gg/vwNCMTSVxA) and on my own git
+server:
+[https://git.front.kjuulh.io/workshop](https://git.front.kjuulh.io/workshop)
+(will be synced to GitHub as well as:
+[https://github.com/kjuulh/workshop-intro](https://github.com/kjuulh/workshop-intro))
+they all are fairly empty for now. More to come.
+
+This page should serve as the index of what I endearingly call `The Workshop`
+series.