Week one. The simplest possible build: this site itself.
Why a site, why now
I’ve been a distributed systems engineer for a while, but most of the work lives in private repos and quieter conversations. The thinking happens. The output is real. But none of it compounds — for me, or for anyone else.
So this is the experiment: one build a week, in public, for a year. Some weeks will be small. Some will be wrong. Most will be unfinished. That’s the whole point.
What I built this week
- An Astro site with content collections for builds and writing
- A typographic system borrowed from apple.com
- A
/nowpage that’s a public commitment device - Enough structure that the second week is easier than the first
What I learned
The hardest part was not the code. It was deciding what not to put on the site. I cut: a resume page, project showcase carousels, social proof, testimonials, a “skills” grid, and three different home-page heroes I prototyped before this one.
The site exists to make publishing easy. Everything else is friction.
Next week
Something with consensus. Probably a toy Raft.