Where I've been
I know it's been over a month since my last post, but believe me, it's been a very interesting and productive period of time for me. There were a few different directions that I was considering going in, so I spent some time sort of organically figuring out what I wanted to focus on. LLMs have gotten so good at conducting research that what would have probably taken me months of googling around and reading books to figure out on my own, can now be expertly aggregated, analyzed, and synthesized in minutes. I'm having flashbacks to when filesharing and then torrenting first became widespread, where I found myself downloading more stuff than I could ever hope to consume in a single lifetime. Now I'm having Gemini generate so many Deep Research reports for me that I may have to start using NotebookLM just to help me consume and get through all of them.
Where I'm at
I have the basics in place: a working Jekyll site, a devpod workflow, and a Nix flake that keeps the environment consistent. The site is simple on purpose, but the scaffolding is solid enough to move faster without breaking things.
What I want next
My near-term goal is to turn the blog into a regular habit, not a one-off. That means fewer big rewrites and more small, steady updates. I also want to make the setup more portable so I can work from anywhere with the same tool chain.
Concrete next steps
- Publish one short post per week for the next month.
- Add a small series: short notes on a single theme, one idea per post.
- Improve the local dev loop: make running the site a one-liner and keep build failures obvious.
- Tighten the content structure: clearer categories and a lighter index page.
- Capture lessons learned from the Devpod + Nix setup so I can reuse them later.
Longer-term direction
Over time I want to mix experiments, product notes, and technical write-ups without losing the personal voice. The site should feel like a lab notebook: honest about what worked, and clear about what did not.
One commitment
I am going to keep the scope small. Shipping more small things is better than waiting for a perfect big thing.