This site has been a GitHub Pages placeholder for years. A CNAME pointing at a domain, a midnight-themed Jekyll page full of boilerplate text, and nothing else.
That changes now.
Why Hugo
I’ve been meaning to write more for a while — technical notes, opinions, things I keep explaining to people and would rather just link to. The friction of setting something up properly was the blocker, so I finally removed it.
Hugo felt like the right call: it’s fast, the PaperMod theme is clean and gets out of the way, and the deploy workflow is just a push to main. Posts are Markdown files, which means AI-assisted drafting fits naturally into the workflow — write a rough outline, refine with Claude, publish.
Jekyll works fine too, but the Ruby toolchain always felt like overhead for something this simple. Hugo is a single binary.
What to expect
Mostly engineering content — tools I’ve found useful, things I’ve built, opinions on the industry. Probably some Swift and iOS content given my background. Possibly some career and culture observations.
I’ll aim for quality over frequency. A post that’s actually useful beats a post that’s just filler.
If you’re reading this having stumbled across the site: hi. More to come.