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2018 was a busy year for me. I did an _amazing_ internship, graduated, started my first full-time gig, became involved in open source more than I had ever been, travelled and made some new friends! Graduating also meant that my university-related work doubled and I had to juggle them along with my open source contributions. This left me with very little time to spend on writing blog posts and talks. I managed to type lots of drafts though, but didn't publish them because they never felt "finished".

But I plan to change that this year! I work on open source during my personal time so while the "oh no, there is no time" problem still exists, I intend to finish some of the drafts and materalize the many ideas I've had. Having said that, I plan to take it slow and I'm not setting any goals for posting blog posts. Doing the latter seems to be a recipe for burn out since my personal time is limited and I'm already spending a lot of it on upstream Kubernetes. I have also noticed that forcing myself to write blog posts doesn't help because writing is a creative process. I also want to enjoy writing blog posts and not feel like I am doing it because I _have_ to do it.

I have been using the default GitHub pages along with the `<username>.github.io` domain for a while now. I wanted to move to a custom domain but I didn't really find a right domain...up until now! Google recently launched the `.dev` TLD and I thought it would be perfect to have a `<first-name>.dev` domain for a personal website. So I did just that and bought `nikhita.dev`! :tada:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/IwBguNh1TZ">https://t.co/IwBguNh1TZ</a> ✔️<br><br>Hopefully this will motivate me to blog more! 🙃 <a href="https://t.co/vQfkEacgPE">pic.twitter.com/vQfkEacgPE</a></p>&mdash; Nikhita Raghunath (@TheNikhita) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNikhita/status/1101361896148660230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Given that I'm done with university and have a shiny `.dev` domain now, hopefully I can spew out more posts. :)

Add new post: new domain and updates
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