Instead of a polished marketing site or a manifesto about content philosophy, I started simpler.
The new structure:
- / — What I'm working on now
- /lab/ — Experiments and tools I've built
- /notes/ — Learning in public, rough thoughts
- /guides/ — The polished stuff (context engineering, prompting patterns)
The first cut was intentionally minimal. System fonts, cream background, Carolina Blue links. No animations, no glass effects, no fancy buttons. Just content.
Why? Because I keep rebuilding this site every few months trying to find the "right" positioning. Maybe the answer is to stop positioning and just document what I'm actually doing.
The rebuild after the rebuild
Then I got bored of "minimal." A site that says "I make things" should feel like it was made by someone with opinions. So the next pass introduced an actual visual system:
- Trippy psych-poster layered backgrounds (mandalas, moire, spirals, morphing blue/pink blobs)
- Hand-lettered Caveat Brush accent words against clean Space Grotesk
- Stencil graffiti throwups for section headers
- Paint drips and ink splats as section decoration
- Carolina Blue + cream paper everywhere, electric pink as the punch color
Same content, same skeleton, totally different vibe. The visual system lives in
src/components/design-system/trippy/ — 13 reusable Astro components, pure SVG + CSS,
zero JavaScript. The kitchen-sink preview is at /style-lab if you want
to see every part isolated.