This is how it always seems to start.
So it seems as good a way as any to start here.

Perhaps that means nothing to you? Perhaps you have landed here without ever having seen a code snippet before. Perhaps you have never worked through the opening exercise of the latest coding or development tutorial?

No matter.

For this is not a coding tutorial. It is a guide to some of the things that I have learned while trying to follow others' lessons and tutorials. And some other miscellaneous items that I also picked up along the way.

Hi, I'm Martin. I am a (relatively) new web developer but one with more than 30 years of other work experiences. I stopped doing the work that I used to do because I wanted to learn something new. And I promised myself that as I learned, I would keep a record of what I learned in case others might find them useful.

That is what you are reading now - the introduction to some lessons learned. For example, this site is built on top of all the good work done by the team at Astro. A big thank you to them from me; I hope to share more on the subject of Astro builds once I have learned enough to share.

My goal in writing the content on this site is to offer my "musings" on the world. The world of web developmet as I find it; and the world beyond. In writing, as in life, I view the world as I hope John Watson would have viewed it. John Watson, aka Wonko the Sane, is a character in the wonderful trilogy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that Douglas Adams wrote in five parts. If you haven't read it yet, then I highly recommend you do; it contains a lot of lessons for life. John Watson built an asylum against the whole world; he lived on the inside and was sane, everyone else lived on the outside and were not.

Hence I call this site "Sane Musings"

The site is structured as follows:

• Blog content where I attempt to capture and document what I have learned in building this and other sites
• Some thoughts on Wisdom I have picked up along the way that I hope may help you along your way
• A Glossary of Terms to help navigate the content, the wider web and (in some cases) life in general
• And a list of Projects and other things that I am working on.

Hopefully some of what you find here is of use and you may return looking for more as I build out more and more content.