I rebuilt my website over the holidays. Not because anything was broken—the old one worked fine—but because I wanted something that felt more like me, and consolidated many of the various domains that I managed at the same time.

The biggest change isn't structural. I built the templating engine behind this website back in 2020, and it's still going strong. It's the little sparkle in the header that randomizes the entire color palette.

I've always had a bold, retro-influenced design aesthetic—I've never wanted my home on the web to look like every other website. Most sites pick a palette and assign meaning to it. Blue means trust, green means growth, whatever. The truth is, these choices are mostly arbitrary. I could have gone with mauve or mustard or seafoam and it wouldn't change what I have to say about my interests.

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