Bringing the System Online
An overview of how this site works, what it’s built for, and where it’s going
I’ve tried blogging before. Sometimes it was performative, designed to support a portfolio that itself was built to support a résumé. Other times it was more experimental, a mix of half-formed ideas and creative detritus. I’ve written about graffiti art, posted ukulele videos, shared recipes, even ran through a full tarot deck with daily photo posts.
None of it stuck. Not because it was wrong, but because it was unaligned. There wasn’t a system. There wasn’t a goal. Just vibes.
This site is different.
🔧 Why This Site, Now
I’m not leaving WordPress. I’ve built a career around it, and it still has its place. But I’ve been wanting to move beyond it for a while.
This site is part of that shift. Not just technically, but as a way to show how I think, how I learn, and how I build. It’s not a portfolio add-on or a content experiment. It’s a system that reflects the way I work.
The structure gives me room to explore things I’ve been circling for years: modular publishing, recursive design, symbolic systems. It’s not built for performance metrics. It’s built to be used.
🧭 What This Is
I think of the site as part workspace, part operating system. It’s public, but it’s not performative. The primary audience is still me.
Each part plays a role:
- The wiki is the knowledge base. It’s modular and self-referential. It covers both the internals of the site and the wider systems I think about.
- The blog is where I narrate things out: logs, essays, loose thoughts. It pulls from the wiki instead of repeating it, kind of like pulling helpers into a script instead of rewriting logic inline.
- The portfolio is a showcase. It documents finished work, but can still link back to the supporting blog posts and wiki entries that helped build it.
It’s built with Astro, Tailwind, and runs on Vercel. But the stack isn’t the point. It’s just the scaffolding.
Each part of the system is curated, not just by what I want to write but by what feels worth folding in.
🌀 What to Expect
The blog will include notes, logs, and essays, some structured, some looser. The wiki will fill out slowly as ideas get reused or referenced often enough to need a proper home. The portfolio will document projects as they evolve, with links out to supporting pieces when they exist.
I’m aiming for a flow-based rhythm. Ideally, something new each week. That might be a blog post, a quiet wiki update, or a project commit. Not everything will be loud or polished. Some things will just show up and settle in, part of an iterative system that values rhythm over resolution. If you want to follow along, I sometimes share updates on the platforms linked in the footer.
Right now, I’m especially looking forward to the project entries. They’ll show how all the parts of the system start to work together.
🛠️ Final Notes
This isn’t a launch. It’s a system coming online.
You’re welcome to explore. Poke through the wiki, follow threads, skim a post or two. The structure will keep expanding. Some parts will stay quiet, others more visible. Either way, everything here is part of the same recursive loop.
I’m not measuring this by traffic or traction. If the system keeps moving, if I keep building, writing, and connecting ideas week by week, that’s the win.
Right now, I feel aligned. This is the kind of space I’ve wanted to build for a long time.
Let’s see what it grows into.
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