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Hello, World (Again)

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I've started blogs before. Never stuck with it.

Same pattern. Write two posts. Get busy. Forget it exists. A year later, delete and tell yourself you'll try again when you have "more time."

Or write on LinkedIn, to the amusement of others, get smirky comments - are you on Tiktok? I am not, sadly? 😏

About time. It's fluid. There's just now and what you choose to do with it.

Why bother#

Writing forces you to take a vague idea rattling around your head and turn it into something concrete. You can't hide behind "I kind of get it" when the blank page is staring back at you.

Another one of 1% better every day things. Not because anyone reads it. Because the act of explaining reveals the gaps in my own understanding.

It's the same with elaborate plans I have for myself every day - plan is the point. Not always following it, get it? 😄

On AI#

Oh my gosh, yes, it's AI, everybody is using - if you use it for WebMD kind of things, but then reprimand your colleague for single shotting a doc, well, that's hypocrisy, no? 😁

Why here#

I like platforms fine. I post on them (or used to). I wanted a place where the writing just sits and stays without worrying where that is in someone's feed, or how many 👍 it got.

A personal site is simple. The domain is mine, the content is mine, it works the way I set it up. This one is a Next.js blog with MDX files in a git repo. No CMS, no database. Just text files and a deploy.

What to expect#

I'm going to write about:

  • Things I'm building. Side projects, tools, experiments. Some will work, most won't, most ideas were killed in ideation (not a real word according to dictionaries).
  • Technical decisions. Architecture, tradeoffs, the stuff that is "boring." Ever heard "prefer boring technologies"?
  • How I think. Problem solving, systems thinking, the mental models that actually help ship code.
  • Peeps I'd like to spotlight. Great content (some AI), you should check them out.

No schedule. No content calendar. No "subscribe for weekly insights." (not now at least).

I write when something is worth writing about. The bar is: would this have helped me six months ago? If yes, it gets published.

So here we are. Again.

function greet(name: string): string {
  const time = new Date().getHours();
  const greeting = time < 12 ? "morning" : time < 18 ? "afternoon" : "evening";
  return `Good ${greeting}, ${name}.`;
}

console.log(greet("world"));