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.

I built it using a React framework called Next.js. Code is hosted on Github and deployed with 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, Googling the error message, and searching for answers on Stack Overflow.

Here are some topics I learned more about and worked through while building this site:

• Software architecture
• Version control
• Web development workflow
• Data security
• Package management
• UI/UX
• Configuration
• Automation
• Build/deployment
• Design
• Writing & editing
• Cost
• 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 — and that doesn't even cover this website!)