| To OP: I see a lot of very critical posts on here. With all due respect… screw them. Perhaps they may be right in their critiques, but as an industry we’re rapidly heading off into mass stupidity in order to follow a bunch of collective “ought to”s and “shoulds”. Many of which have the current validity of an urban myth. What passes for “engineering” these days would be laughable if we weren’t actively building our future on it. My father was an aerospace engineer and I feel I can hear him rolling over in his grave at was passes for engineering in modern software development. Yes, this is a comment section so everyone is free to comment. But personally it’s taken me 25 years in the industry to finally ignore all those chattering voices and actually do what I feel makes sense for those few opportunities where I can. And on a personal site no less? That old “here’s to the crazy ones” line in the Apple commercial sure rings far from true. Given what the internet has become and that once startups are now literally the largest corporate behemoths on the landscape- it should not be a surprise. Teddy Roosevelt’s quote about “the man in the arena” is so true these days. I say rock on, OP, rock on… |
my website is my sacred & unique playground, not a perfectly optimized website. i write it all myself, and it evolves over time.
my style definitely strikes people the wrong way sometimes - i'm used to people being critical about it. i make some weird decisions for the sake of contorting my content into a form that i like, but i think that's what makes my content endearing. it's not like everything else out there. some rough edges, sure, but i'll get better over time as i explore my "personal form" :)
to me, a website is like a long-term art project. it should represent the author - and in my case, my site represents me, unabashedly.