Building again
Why I came back to writing on my own site—and how building with AI made shipping on the web feel fun again.
It’s been a year and a half since I wrote something here at all. While I moved over somewhat to Substack, I never quite enjoyed it, while writing on this page via Github was a bit of a hassle.
However, I finally find myself in VSCode on a weekly basis, tinkering more and more as ChatGPT’s fueled my desire to explore, prototype quick hacks, and ship. For real – I actually shipped something! This tweet below describes the mental change I’ve been trying to make that’s been paying dividends.
On top of that, need to give major kudos to Vercel for making the developer experience of building for the web so much better than what I last remember (circa 2013). I mean this about both their own platform, as well as NextJS (which I’m finally getting the hang of). Putting together this new site as a replacement for my old Jekyll driven one was actually fun – though I still need to get around to finally getting comfortable with CSS!
Hopefully you all see me write more often. And more importantly, ship more often.