Why I Created This Site

For years I wanted a little corner of the web under my own name, and for years I talked myself out of it. Now it exists. Welcome.

Here is the honest reason it waited so long. I am a technical program manager, not a web developer. I know enough HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be dangerous and nowhere near enough to be fast. So every time I pictured building a site, I did not picture the fun part. I pictured the chore. The broken links, the layout that looks fine on my laptop and falls apart on a phone, the slow drift into a stale page with my name stamped on it. And if you have read anything else here, you know how I feel about signing up for a job that never ends.

That was the trap. I was never scared of building the thing once. I was scared of maintaining it forever.

What changed is the same thing quietly reshaping how I work in general. I have been an early adopter of AI tools since ChatGPT first showed up, and yes, I drank the Kool-Aid early and often. But the difference lately has been hard to argue with. The wall I used to hit is now a conversation. I describe what I want in plain English, get working code back, ask why it broke, and fix it without losing a weekend to a wall of Stack Overflow tabs. The distance between "I have an idea" and "the idea is live" got dramatically shorter.

That is the part that actually mattered. AI did not just help me build the site. It erased the exact objection that had stopped me for a decade. Want to tweak the layout? Ask. Add a post? Ask. Broke something? Describe it and fix it in a few minutes. The maintenance that used to be the whole reason not to start is now the easy part.

If you have followed along, you know this is the same lesson I keep relearning in different clothes. Buy the rugged watch instead of babying six base model Apple Watches. When a hesitation keeps tripping you up, find the tool that removes the friction entirely, then stop thinking about it. For this site, the friction was upkeep, and the tool that removed it was AI. Once the real obstacle was gone, the decision made itself.

So what is this place for? Think of it as my elevator pitch with room to breathe. It is where I lay out who I am and what I do, point to my best work and where to find me around the web, and write about the things I am using, fixing, and thinking about. Not a profile on someone else's platform, subject to their rules and their algorithm, but a page that is mine, with my name on the door. A home I actually control.

The site is not perfect, and it is going to keep changing. That is the whole point. It is easy enough to update now that I will keep it alive instead of letting it rot.

If you have been sitting on your own project because the upkeep sounds exhausting, look again. The tools moved. The thing that felt like too much work might be a lot easier than you remember.

Mine sure was. Thanks for stopping by.