Hello, World

Every engineer eventually builds a personal website, and every personal website apparently has to open with a post explaining itself. I see no reason to fight tradition.

How it’s built#

This site is a pile of static HTML generated by Astro, with posts written in MDX and pushed to GitHub, where an Action rebuilds and deploys everything to GitHub Pages. There’s no backend, no database, and no framework running in your browser. It’s just HTML, CSS, and a small amount of JavaScript doing things like the reading bar above this text.

The few dynamic parts lean on other people’s generosity: the footer shows the current weather at whichever large airport is nearest to you, and the flying page rebuilds itself daily from my actual VATSIM history: hours, routes, and a map of everywhere I’ve recently pretended to land an A320. If the numbers on that page look unimpressive, I’d like to stress that they are at least real.

Why it exists#

Mostly because engineering is changing at a pace I can only describe as character-building, and writing things down is the cheapest way I know to keep up. This is where I’ll put what I’m learning, whether that’s building with AI, the odd transport tangent, or whatever else currently has my attention, before I’ve had time to pretend I knew it all along.

If any of it turns out to be useful to someone else, that’s a bonus. If not, at least the weather in the footer is accurate.