Blog Note: Part 8 - Blog post categories consolidation (cont.)
Blog post categories have been further consolidated as follows.
Goals: further simplify and deprecate.
architecture ==> architecture & software
architecture & software
blog note
book reading list
book review
book review solicited
case study
community
conference
consulting
data
entrepreneurship
healthcare software
leadership
media query
media query quoted
pro bono
process improvement
running
software engineering ==> architecture & software
strategy ==> leadership
A few comments:
Two years ago, I consolidated 25 categories into 19 categories, and after recently adding the new "entrepreneurship" category I realized that some additional changes were needed.
All architecture posts are related to software engineering, and most software engineering posts discuss architecture to some extent, so I've decided to merge these two categories into "architecture & software" (instead of "software & architecture" so that it will display at the top any time tags are sorted). Modern data work often overlaps with this category, but the "data" category will continue to be used because data can be discussed in isolation as well as in the context of solutions built with the intention of it being the product rather than the means to an end.
At last count, there were 58 posts tagged "book reading list". While this quarterly series was somewhat popular, it was also a timely series that quickly lost its value over time. Unlike all the other categories mentioned in this post, I've decided to unpublish all of the posts in this category apart from the one community comment in which I mentioned how I categorized books in each of my reading lists, and I've tagged this post "book review" instead.
On a similar note, I've decided to remove the "healthcare software" category. All 18 of the posts categorized in this manner were already also minimally categorized into what is now "architecture & software", and there's no longer a need for me to highlight my experience building products for providers and insurers. I've additionally decided to unpublish all of the posts focused on the open source "HAPI" (HL7 Application Programming Interface) software framework that I used earlier in my career, since most of these largely had no value-add apart from publicizing release dates.
All told, 16 of 19 categories and 440 of 505 published posts remain (excluding the one you're reading now).