Hello, World!

Back in 2015 I registered this domain so I could have a place of my own on the internet. I started with a couple of hand-crafted HTML pages served out of an AWS S3 bucket with some lambda magic to get the security headers working properly. In 2018 I moved the same site across to Netlify with plans to flesh it out.

I’ve had a few abandoned attempts at getting a static site generator working how I want over the years, but they never made it out of the prototype phase. I also have a bunch of rough ideas for blog posts sitting in drafts that I never got around to polishing and publishing.

The importance of writing has been a hot topic around the net the last few months, which gave me a nudge to have another go. In particular, this quote really resonated:

My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all.

Nobody will ever know how perfect the thing you intended to write would have been.

A few weeks back I made enough progress on the site generator and theme that I pulled the trigger and pushed it to the live site. Now I just need to do some writing. The first post is always the hardest. With that out of the way, hopefully I can make a habit out of it.

I’m going to make an effort to take all those rough ideas and get them out of the drafts and onto the web.

Recently I found some old notebooks from around the time I first made this website. Maybe I’ll start there…​