A fresh start

It’s been a while since I have updated my personal website. Back when I graduated, I used a free simple template online, made some modifications, and hosted it with GitHub Pages for the purposes of not having to pay for any hosting. Working with a static site is much simpler than having to manage something large that has greater functionality and an actual back end.

However, after being in the CS industry for over two years now, I wanted to work on something with posting functionality, integrating with some APIs, and learning some new skills/languages.

Between the last time I updated my old site and this site being live, I attempted to use Gatsby.js to generate a static site a few times. However, each time, I became disinterested in it because of the friction I found while trying to build a new personal site. It was frustrating to say the least. I took a break and now here we are, with a new website!

I plan to write another post on some of the challenges I encountered with setting this site up from square zero but here are the highlights:

• Built with 11ty
• Using Notion as a CMS for posts and book reviews
• SASS for styling (a tool new-ish to me)
• Hosted with Netlify

I hope to actually utilize my website more now that I can easily create content and have it made available here. Only time will tell!