Why I Started This Blog [PLACEHOLDER]

Note: This is a placeholder post generated by Claude to test how the blog will look like. My personal blogs are coming soon.

For a while now I’ve had a tab open in my head labeled things I should write down. Notes scattered across Obsidian, Notion, random markdown files in a dev-blogs folder I keep promising to do something with. This site is me finally doing something with them.

The honest reason

I write to think. Writing forces precision in a way that thinking alone doesn’t. You can hold a vague idea in your head and feel like you understand it — until you try to explain it, and the gaps become obvious.

So the primary audience here is actually me. If something I write turns out to be useful to someone else, that’s a bonus.

What I’ll write about

Roughly two categories:

Tech — things I’m building, tools I’m learning, patterns I keep running into. Less tutorial-style, more here’s what I actually found working on a real thing. I tend to learn by doing and then reflecting, so a lot of this will be post-mortems and retrospectives on side projects.

Personal — career, productivity, things I’m reading, occasional non-technical rabbit holes. These will be shorter and probably less polished.

I’m not committing to a schedule. Quality over cadence.

The setup

This site is built with Astro, which I’ve been meaning to try for a while. Static-first, markdown-based, fast by default. The posts live in a src/content/blog/ folder as plain markdown files, which means I can write in any editor and they’re just files — no database, no CMS, no lock-in.

I also have a separate repo (dev-blogs) where I’ve been stockpiling drafts. Some of those will make it here once they’re in shape.

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If you’ve made it this far — thanks for reading. More coming soon.