About this Site

October 02, 2022

This Site's Purpose

It's amazing how quickly my ability to write atrophies after extended breaks. I built this site to take a deeper dive into web-development, improve my writing skills, and share solutions to problems I face.

One of my long-standing goals is to be self-employed, either running my own businesses or freelancing. At first, this was born out of the desire for independence, "working for yourself", etc..

However after two years of building my first business, I found these to be the least fulfilling aspects. This paragraph is turning cliche but it rings true for me. It is more rewarding to work with others, understand their problems, and work to solve them as quick as possible. Probably an eye roll for most but that's okay.

This blog is a way to form a habit around this concept. Sharing information on the internet and hopefully helping others along the way, instead of working alone.

How I Built this Site

This site started as a learning project to better learn Tailwind CSS and my favorite React framework, Next.js.

I chose Next.js because it's easy to implement server side rendering, routing, and Typescript.

MDX let's you write blog posts (and other cool stuff) using Markdown.

This site is open source!