Building This Site

I've long thought about a blog. Always wanted to roll my own rather than using something like WordPress — that's just who I am. But that was taking too long.

Now good AI is here. So I've wired up this simple website — starting from my own ssg-base template — based on some fundamentals I think are important:

• HTML, prerendered — but with full hydration and rich interactions.
• Git as the source.
• My voice. All primary content is written by me, optionally edited by AI. AI-first content is clearly marked.

That first one, live — a real React component, hydrated in your browser: