Why I finally built a website of my own

I have written on Medium, Dev.to, HackerNoon, Hashnode and a blog called IAnswerable. Each of them was easier than setting up a site. Each of them also owned the URL, the design, the reader relationship, and — increasingly — whether anyone saw the post at all.

So here we are. A plain site, on a domain I own, with an RSS feed.

What goes here

Three things, roughly:

1. Engineering notes. Things I hit while building GrackerAI that took longer than they should have.
2. Product and growth. Eleven years at LoginRadius taught me that shipping is the easy half. The other half is why anyone should care.
3. Post-mortems. Both kinds — the ones that worked and the ones that didn’t.

How it’s built

Astro, markdown, no client-side framework, deployed as a Cloudflare Worker with static assets. The whole design system is two colours:

:root {
  --bg: #ffffff;
  --fg: #000000;
}

That constraint is doing a lot of work. Without colour, hierarchy has to come from spacing, weight and rules — which is a better discipline than reaching for a brand palette every time something needs emphasis.

Subscribing

There is an RSS feed. No newsletter, no popup, no cookie banner, because there is nothing to consent to.