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2025-09-01

It's been nearly 3 years since I created my first porfolio site using Github pages (which I presciently gave a "v0.1.1" tag to). I've learned lots about backend engineering since then; I used to rely on static HTML and screen-recorded Streamlit demos (lol) to showcase my work to potential employers. This was in the old days, before you could ask the Machine God to walk you through web development step-by-step. As such, I figured it was time for an upgrade.

It's also been a bit more than a year since I wrote my first blog post, which was the one and only post that I ever made on that site. While this seems like a resounding failure and another notch on the belt of half-assed side projects, it fulfilled it's intended purpose of demonstrating my technical knowledge to help me secure an internship, which turned into a job.

The post reads as incredibly contrived, because it was. I had originally intended to continue writing more "Perspective" posts, but found it incredibly dull, and since I had already gotten the job that was the original ends, the means no longer felt as appealing.

I was inspired to start a blog again after reading DHH's. The main thing that struck me was how short some of his posts were. Clearly I did not like the long-form blog format... so why did I place that constraint on myself in the first place?

It also helped me realize that the best way to showcase my technical perspective is through a consistent stream of thoughts, not an annual mega-post. This seems obvious in hindsight, but fresh out of 5 years of school it was not.

You can expect that this site will serve as a one-stop-shop for everything I want to attach my name to online. Projects will look polished, I invested in a cool domain name, and I am intentially architecting my site to fit all of the requirements of my personal site for the rest of my career.