my manifesto (not the scary kind, I promise)
You might be wondering why a tech worker's portfolio and blog site might be so boring and plain. The truth is that I'm tired of a framework, theme, or template for everything.
I've always told myself I want to write more, do more creative things, but then I found myself using all my time outside of work tinkering with different SSGs, themes, frameworks, the hot new things, and so on. It was like work, but for free. I felt like tools were getting in the way of being creative. I finally got so burned out on it that I stopped writing anything at all afterhours. In August of 2025 I was introduced to the "indie web", and was re-introduced to the humble, hand-coded personal website.
So, this hand-coded, AI-free website is my attempt to showcase all the cool innovative stuff I can do (in my blog and work history), while also honoring my need to leave room for tech to be creative and fun without a bunch or rules or business needs.
This need for creative freedom is almost reactionary in a way -- I can't get away with downstyle everything on the doc site I manage at my job, but I can certainly do so here. I can't use run-on sentences for dramatic effect at work, but I can here.
I fully intend for this website to become a labyrinthine mess of professional opinions, portfolio pieces, and thoughts on the industry. It may be risky from a career perspective, but I believe that technical writing is an artform and people who would think I'm a worse tech writer for running a show like this don't understand the craft.
So welcome to my web place, written in HTML, without AI, without pretense, and without rigid rules. I do enough consistency at my day job :-)