A Site, Again

There's a version of this site that still references the pandemic in the present tense. I won't tell you how long it's been like that.

In my defense, I've been busy. That's the thing about working in software — the craft never really stops. You pick up new patterns, revisit old ones, form strong opinions about things you previously had no opinion on, and quietly discard opinions you were once very vocal about at standup. The work is good. It just doesn't leave a lot of slack for tending to a personal site that approximately twelve people visit per year.

But I've been thinking about this more lately. There's something useful about having a place to think out loud — not a thread, not a post that disappears into an algorithmic feed, but an actual page that exists at a stable URL I own. Writing for an audience, even a small one, forces a kind of clarity that writing in a private doc doesn't. You have to commit to the thought.

So: the site is getting some attention. Stale content out. A /musings section in. I have no shortage of things to think about out loud — tooling, language design, the occasional war story told with enough detail removed to be useless to anyone trying to identify the parties involved.

I won't pretend to post on a schedule. But I'll post when something is worth saying.

That seems like a reasonable deal.