Just under 10 years ago was when I first registered this domain, but I’ve had some form of website on the internet for 13 years. Despite the readership of this website probably hovering around ~0, this has been a nice, quiet place to put things I’m proud of online.
But as with anything, this site has evolved over time, and has probably had the biggest change in content philosophy over the past month. The technical philosophy has ebbed and flowed over time - this was once a Bootstrap theme, written in plain HTML, then it was moved to Jekyll + Webpack, and now it lives as a Hugo bog - but the content philosophy remained the same.
This site has always had three sections: A blog, a resume, and a projects page. It served to be the showcase of who I am, to try and encourage people to look at me, especially for potential jobs. It was also a way to stuff up the website with content, at a time when I didn’t write a whole lot.
(Some of this came from inspirations, such as the website of designer Rob Sterlini, who designed many of the pages of YouTubers I watched.)
But… the website has been in a state of constant atrophy. Keeping the resume in sync with the PDF version was never trivial, and generating the PDF from the web contents was never particularly desirable to me: the layout was never “ATS” friendly, and these days I keep it simple with a variant of JakeCV.
The projects section never really filled up. It was still listing a project I wrote before I started university, and while it was fine, there was little passion in the way I wrote about it - which wasn’t meant to reflect anything about the project itself, but the style I was writing at the time. And these days, I don’t find it interesting, so there is little desire to rewrite it.
Anything newer and more interesting… I’d just write a blog post.
And that really is the point of this design. Anything interesting I do, I usually write about, so the site should be focused around it. And as I did years ago, I’ve aped some of the design cues from Simon Willison’s blog, which I’ve become a huge fan of lately. Hopefully it has enough distinction to stand on its own.
I hope you like it.