What my first website could not say

It worked—and that was not enough

My first personal website was deliberately practical. It gave projects and notes a consistent home, loaded quickly, and asked for very little maintenance. The design sat somewhere between a diary and a well-made tool.

Over time I noticed what it was missing. It could describe what I had made, but not why such different interests—artificial intelligence, space, cycling, places, and community—belonged to the same person. The homepage behaved like an index when I wanted it to feel like an introduction.

That became the reason to rebuild it. The current garden keeps the dependable publishing system underneath, but gives the work a setting, relationships, and a stronger point of view.

See the version-one project page or read the current colophon.