Starting again on the open web

This is the first post on this site, which means I am legally allowed to overthink it and then pretend I did not.

I have wanted a small place to write for a long time. Not a content machine, not a personal brand factory, and definitely not a place where every post has to sound like it came out of a startup newsletter. Just a simple website where I can keep notes, write about things I build, and come back to older ideas without searching through five different apps.

Most of my work has been around Django, Python, backend systems, open source, and community work. A lot of that work creates useful lessons, but those lessons are easy to lose. A migration edge case. A weird production bug. A small tool that saved me a few hours. A community event that taught me something about people that no codebase could have taught me.

Those are the kinds of things I want to write down here.

I also want this site to stay boring in the best way. Fast pages. Plain text. Readable posts. No unnecessary drama.

The rough plan:

• project notes from things I build
• Django and Python writeups
• open-source and community lessons
• startup/product thoughts from a builder who is still figuring it out
• occasional personal notes that deserve more space than a social post

I wish I had started this earlier, but that is a useless thought after two minutes. So I am starting now.

If this site does its job, it will become a small public notebook: useful to me, hopefully useful to someone else, and honest enough that future me can read it without cringing too hard.