Some infrastructure changes
In addition to using several programming languages, I also like to experiment with different web infrastructures. A few weeks ago I switched from using gmail as my primary email service to using fastmail.com. I still use gmail as a backup email and for my Google identity but I decided that I liked Fastmail a bit better and the yearly cost is not much. The other change I have made is switching my www.markwatson.com web site from a Ruby + Sinatra web app on my own server to a PHP app running on Google's AppEngine. My absolutely favorite feature of AppEngine is the rolling system logs that can be checked easily from the AppEngine console. When I worked at Google in 2013, I loved the internal development environment (Borg, online system logs, the Cider IDE, and much more). Using AppEngine is, in a small way, reminiscent of Google's internal environment - at least enough so to make me nostalgic :-) I have never been a huge fan of PHP although I have used it over the years for