365 Days of Procrastination

If you have been to tanjisheng.com anytime from January 2017 to March 2018. You would have been to the 2nd generation of my personal website that showcases my skills and some information about myself. Featuring a nice animated connected dots that symbolizes networks of data being connected. The rebuilds from 1st generation of a static and boring site was a move away step from bachelor degree student to a master degree student.

The idea and structure of the website

The idea of designing the website with connected dots are related to my focus and research that I am working full time on, my master degree research with the title “Automated feature learning using deep learning for network fault prediction”.

On a layman term, the research uses machine learning or artificial intelligence to determine if a customer is going to suffer from network fault which can cause disruption to their home network without prior knowledge from the network experts on what are the causes parameters. So, the machine should be able to capture the patterns that lead to a network fault automatically.

The about page features a picture of myself from a studio shooting of my graduation back in mid-year 2016, the year where I graduated my bachelors of degree in computer science. There are 3 main things that I picture myself working on. Research, Development and Consultation. In another word, my Master Research and freelancer work involving development and consultation.

The genesis of the procrastination

If you have ever press on the blog on the top right of the website. It will lead you to a countdown page that tells you how many days until 1st April 2017. Initially, when I put up the website, I gave myself time until 1st April to complete the User Interface and the blog post on my personal website.

The second generation of the website has another objective, which is to serve the website using serverless architecture. So, the entire website is hosted on Amazon Web Services and uses edges to duplicate the website giving lower latency in loading the resources.

However, one of the reasons which demotivated me is that every post that I write needs to be a standalone HTML and rename manually. This is something bad about writing static site on AWS S3. Another reason being, I could not find the scope of what I wanted to cover or what I am trying to achieve from this blog.

The motivation to end the procrastination

I spent exactly 365 days not working on my blog and procrastinated. Until early in the year 2018, I found reasons to start blogging. I may not have a lot of stories to share at the moment but being able to look back at what I have been through and lessons that come with it is something that is worth the effort.

I came across a book written by a friend of mine named “The Art of Owning Your Story”, there is a quote that I love in the book that sparks the idea of me going back to blogging.

Writing my life story is not about knowing enough about life, but to do enough in life, to keep asking questions and seeking for answers.

A few months ago, I met a person that changed my mindset. She is extremely hard working and goal oriented. Her persistent in pursuing her dreams despite hardship and the spirit of never give up when things get tough are traits that are extremely admirable.

How she uses her blog to spread her thoughts and sharing tips and tricks on topics that she knows best somewhat motivates me to do the same.

I aim to structure my blog towards sharing my reflection on a particular event, simplifying of technology jargon, reviewing of technology product as well as my journey as an entrepreneur.

Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity

Today is indeed the special day for the special someone and also a special day for me as it marks the very special day where I restructure and relaunch my website as well as my life towards my dream. I will prepare myself hoping the opportunity to knock on my door and I could be the lucky person.