Hello, World!

Every blog starts with a hello world, so here's mine.

Why I started this blog

I've been meaning to write publicly for a long time. Not for an audience — at least not primarily — but as a way to think more clearly. Writing forces precision: you can't handwave over the gaps when the words are staring back at you.

So consider this a thinking-out-loud space. I'll write about things I'm learning, tools I find useful, and problems that make me scratch my head.

What to expect

• Short and frequent rather than long and rare
• Practical, code-heavy posts about real problems
• Occasional opinion — clearly labeled as such

The tooling

This site is built with Zola, a static site generator written in Rust. No Node.js, no build pipelines, no node_modules black hole. Just a single binary that takes Markdown and spits out HTML in milliseconds.

# Build the site
zola build

# Start a local dev server with live reload
zola serve

That's it. Simple, fast, and pleasant to work with.

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." — Kent Beck

I'm aiming for all three.