My personal website that I use as a creative outlet and to publish art! Everything that you see on the blog was written or created by me. That includes all of the writing, art, even the website was written by me using some of my favorite technologies
I don't think of this website as a project showcase, although it closely resembles one. I don't care if anyone ever sees this. I don't care if I am writing into the abyss. I think that it is important to document and measure what you do while you are alive. My hope is that in 1000 years someone will stumble upon this website and see who I am. In a way, I may never truly die.
I am most interested in writing and creating content about topics closely related to the outdoors. Skiing, climbing, mountaineering, methodology, trip reports, testing gear. The same bullshit that everyone is trying to do. That is not a limit. I intend to write about anything that I find interesting or useful. Unrelated articles about tech and other random topics may just be harder to find. In fact, you may find some of those articles linked below.
Additionally, I find that this website gives me a reason to create. It gives me a reason to visit every place that you can mountain bike in Kansas City instead of just going to the one I like the most. It gives me a reason to skin the extra few miles to see what is over the saddle. It is a process that I have come to love, and cannot imaging a life not written down.
Lastly, while I make works that are going to end up on this site, ideas start pouring out. I think that creating and writing about ideas makes me really think everything through, and that leads to another idea, and then another.
A play on my name! Being able to include a Waffle House plate into the logo was just an added bonus!
I used a few different technologies to build the site. MDX was definitely the focal point. I wanted to be able to freely type out a document and not have to reformat it, but I also wanted the flexibility to add extra functionality that you would not get from a standard WordPress website. MDX was perfect for this, however there was definitely some setup and learning required to get everything that I wanted.
The tech stack for this site is pretty much just Nextjs, React, and MDX. I use a few libraries but try to keep it to a minimum.
There is currently no backed(there are Nextjs server functions and API routes) or database. It is 100% static. There are some files that contain data that might look awfully similar to a noSQL database but that is just complexity. I want to model the data very quickly and at the end of the day it is static. At some point if the need arises I am open to adding a database. This may be sooner than later!
Neovim & Tmux are the only useful tools:)
AI was not used in the creation of this creation.