Today is a day like no other for me, and for tommymaynard.com.

As best I can tell, this will be the last blog post written for this website. I’ve known it was coming, and still it’s tough to write this. The content will remain for now, but my time here, will not.

I started this website in the summer of 2014 as a way to give back to the PowerShell community; as a way to share my success and failure with PowerShell over the years. It’s been a huge part of my recent life and as best I can tell, a success. I’ve averaged nearly six posts per month and of recent, close to 200 visits per weekday. For some reason, people don’t PowerShell over the weekend. Weird.

So yes, it’s a sad day. But, it’s not all sad.

I’m still going to PowerShell, and work, and PowerShell, and play with my kids, and PowerShell, and hang out with my wife, and PowerShell. I’ll probably also PowerShell. Not much is really going to change, other than I’m not going to be adding any new content to tommymaynard.com. I’m not out of new content; I’m just out of time to write about it here.

You see, I’m moving upward. That’s how I’m thinking about this change. I’m adding myself to the all-volunteer staff at PowerShell.org. That means I’m giving this place up, for a move where my writing and ramblings will be seen by a wider audience. I’m getting an opportunity to help share ideas and experiences, all related to PowerShell, with a group larger than what I was able to do on my own. I like that I’ve become a success here, but my next goal is to become a success over there.

I would like to formally invite everyone to visit PowerShell.org — the center of our community — if you’ve not already been there, or if you have. I’m still writing to teach; I’m still honored to be a part of our community. I’m just not writing it here anymore. Join me for my newest content at PowerShell.org, and if you want to write too, then let’s talk. If you’re passionate about PowerShell, then you have ideas and you’ve built things you should share. PowerShell.org isn’t a lecture hall, where the voices come from a few. It’s a platform for everyone in this community; it’s a place open for you to make an impact. It’s a line on your resume, if you want to think about it that way. That one little thing you did that one time, can be that one little thing for someone else too, when they need it most. All we have to do is share it.

Write, and tell a story.
Share, no matter how big or small.
Teach, to prove your knowledge.
As a group, we all have something that the others among us are missing.

Tommy Maynard [December 5, 2018]
tommymaynard.com [June 2014 – December 2018]