Why I built this site

I’m always learning, always reading and always writing. Most of that writing lives in my Obsidian vault, where it helps me think but doesn’t help anybody else. I wanted a place for the pieces worth sharing, so I built one.

For a long time my presence online was a LinkedIn profile and a résumé on VisualCV. Both are fine when someone wants my work history. Neither is a good place to talk about a book I’m reading or a tool that surprised me. I’ve done long-form writing before as a co-author of the AWS Cookbook, and I’d like to write more often, in smaller pieces.

The other reason is that building it was fun. I got to geek out on Astro, Cloudflare Pages, publishing straight from Obsidian and a bunch of AI agent workflows, and I learned something from every one of them. Learning by building a thing I’ll actually use is right up my alley. The details are in How this site is built.

So what goes here? Cloud architecture and software engineering, since that’s my work, plus the stuff I geek out on outside of it: books, music, and the projects running on my homelab. Some posts will be quick raves, some will be longer write-ups (and probably a rant or two).