Hello, World!
I finally got around to making myself a website! What now? To be honest, I didn't really have much of a plan in mind. I've seen lots of cool blogs and portfolios over the past several years and thought GitHub Pages seemed pretty neat, so I eventually bit the bullet and set the repository up.
Implementation
I've written relatively simple HTML and CSS several times before, but that was more for throwaway projects that wouldn't see the light of day. My goal with this site was to make it good-looking, accessible, idiomatic, and relatively simple. Despite its current minimalism, working on it reminded me of why I don't really enjoy web development that much. I think it's the whole designing aspect compounded with how I can't stop impulsively overthinking every little detail. However, I've learned a lot more about HTML and CSS in addition to also developing a sort of taste or internal sense of standards for how I'd like my code to be written. It just seems to me like there's an unlimited number of ways for doing the same thing in web development too, and it's pretty frusturating for me. I hope that the more I read and practice, the easier it'll be for me to just write things out without much bikeshedding.
I'm also not very knowledgable when it comes to UI design, accessibility, typography, and the like. They all scare me, but I feel like it's a good thing that I've read about them all to try to do what I can, instead of just avoiding them. Maybe it'll all help me later on in other areas.
This is also probably the first time that I've seriously used AI throughout working on a project. I'm not using it to the extent where it's embedded in my editor and allowed to modify files, or even where I'm just copying and pasting code. So far, I've primarily been using it for learning about the different ways of implementing things, and assistance with decision-making. I chose Grok because its lack of apparent censorship in comparison to other models stood out nicely. I also want to check out Zed's AI features later on when I become a bit more confident with programming again. I don't, however, see myself using AI for prose.
Content
As for the content of the site itself, I feel like it's going to go through a lot of changes over time, as I'm quick to change my mind. For now, I'm thinking of it having some information about myself, a portfolio (despite my limited prowess), and my projects on GitHub, all on the front page. Later on, I can split things up into more pages if needed.
As for the blog, I hope that over time I write a bunch of posts about all the different things that comes to my mind. Some topics that I can see being written about currently include programming, Linux, metal, weightlifting, philosophy, and me trying to navigate life. Regarding the ability to stay consistent with posting, I'm not sure if I can make any guarantees, but I'll try my best. I won't lie, attention from the internet on what I write would be a substantial motivation.
The Future
Since starting high school, I've dropped off considerably with being a computer nerd and all. I think it was some combination of me being distracted, being unmotivated, not having time, and falling into procrastination. However now that it's summer break, I've really been getting back into the habit of programming and messing around with my system. I've also uploaded a lot of old projects lying around on my computers up to GitHub after some refactoring.
This is the first relatively major project I've written in quite a while, and it's also something that I'm a bit unfamiliar with (web development). I hope that I follow through with working on this, and in the process also learn about web development and writing prose.