https://syntopikon.com/interests/podcaster/Recent content in Podcaster on SyntopikonHugoenFri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://syntopikon.com/conversations/marc-barrowclift/Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://syntopikon.com/conversations/marc-barrowclift/<h2 id="who-are-you-and-what-do-you-do">Who are you, and what do you do?</h2> <p>My name is Marc Barrowclift, and I work full time on helping maintain the DVR Scheduler at Comcast. Nowadays, in my free time I’m typically either writing articles on my <a href="https://barrowclift.me/">blog</a> or recording a new episode for my podcast, <a href="https://badmusichertz.com/">Bad Music Hertz</a>.</p> <h2 id="how-did-you-get-interested-in-that">How did you get interested in that?</h2> <p>Funnily enough, the blog began seven years ago as a means to an end; my primary interest at the time was (and in many ways remains) web development &amp; interface design, and I was desperate to create a place where I could learn and practice it. However, I was initially intimidated by the deeper knowledge required for building dynamic web apps, so the path of least resistance was taken in the form of a static personal website. The simple static website framework I went with (<a href="https://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a>) just so happened to also bring along with it rudimentary plain text blogging support. Since I was interested in playing around with article designs, I decided to commit to writing a few articles to populate the space. It was through the process of writing those “placeholder” articles that I discovered I was quite fond of it and took more of an active interest in finding more things to write about.</p>