We’ve finally arrived.
This website began before my career did, back when I was in school and looking for jobs. The last time I wrote about the site itself was 2014, when I was unpacking after a long awaited move: Jekyll had just spared me from writing HTML for every page. The design hasn’t changed much since — minimal, and still here to share my work.
Twelve years later, the technology is good enough to maintain a website and the side projects around it. My coding hours are shorter than ever, but the abundance gives back more: more site, more side projects, more creative force. You might click around and think: wow, all these features. That wasn’t me — the AI worked, and it deserves the credit. If anything, this site is a record that I was making things long before AI got good. And now, at last, I can sit down and groom it.
When the internet first arrived, we put our lives onto social networks. It was all we had. Then those communities evolved. We spend our days in walled gardens now, optimizing what we post, reading between the ads. They’re great technologies, just no longer places to simply be.
A personal website is my safe haven. It’s the only place on the internet where I can be open about who I am, what I do, and at least what I think I do. LinkedIn isn’t for that. Instagram isn’t either. Neither is work, where half of this would be too much information. There has never really been a medium for my art, my life’s work, the things that keep me excited. So I’m growing my own.
Everything is at arm’s reach now, and the world is noisier for it. Which is why the picking and choosing of what to show matters more, not less. Curation is the one job here I won’t delegate, and it’s driven by what we consume. Lately, work has me thinking a lot about what really tells you who someone is, and it’s rarely a checklist.
This website is my LinkedIn. It’s my Instagram. It’s my resume. If you want to know me, start here.
You won’t find much about my past work; a resume does that better. This is for the rest: the projects, the things that excite me, someday the books I’ve read. I built it for my friends, the people I meet, my co-workers.
I hope you find a little bit of what drives me — some moments I wanted to keep.