I created this website to share my various projects, creative and technical, but I would be remiss to not mention the site itself as one of the most challenging technical and creative projects I have embarked on thus far, which has involved working through numerous important considerations and challenges, and forced me to learn a ton along the way:

• Cost
• Version control
• Software architecture
• Web development workflow
• Data security
• Package management
• UI/UX
• Configuration
• Automation
• Build/deployment
• Design
• Writing & editing
• Various programming languages and tools used throughout the web development stack (HTML, CSS, Tailwind, Javascript, React, Next.js, Typescript, Bash, Linux, Git, Node.js, JSON, NPM, Yarn, Markdown, JSX, MDX, Netlify, DNS — and that doesn't even cover this website!)

Technologies used

This website is built with a React framework called Next.js. I host the code repository on Github and deploy using Netlify.

Credit to @timlrx for the excellent Tailwind Nextjs Starter Blog template, which uses Tailwind for styling and Contentlayer to manage markdown content.

Generative AI has also been extremely helpful. Most things I use AI for still take some troubleshooting, but it generally helps me get things done more quickly than I would otherwise. It's been beneficial for learning coding or anything else, as you can conversationally engage on any topic from a single window. There was however some benefit to the several years before AI, doing it the 'old fashioned' way; troubleshooting through the code, Googling the error message, and searching for answers on Stack Overflow.

A note on code visibility: other projects I post here will be shared publicly on my GitHub profile or Codepen, but I have chosen not to make the code repository for this site public so as to hide my commits and only provide visibility to the most current version of the content.