On Simplifying

Alright, so last year my endeavor to write weekly blog posts flared out pretty quickly. Part of that was work burnout (I’ve since left Discord and joined Vanta) and part of it was some frustrations with MDX and the build process of my website. I tried to do some tech upgrades after my Weekly Roundup II article, and ended up with a broken mess of dependencies. I couldn't get things to work, threw in the towel, and left the website to sit for many months.

I am finally ready to give posting a go again. I just shipped a pseudo-redesign that switches from MDX to Markdown, drops Prism for rehype-pretty-code, uses React Server Components, and cut out the static build process for some side project demonstrations I was hosting. The new website is simpler to write posts for, but is also harder to add interactive content to. Ultimately, I think that’s a good thing. I (hopefully) won't sit on half written articles tinkering with interactive widgets until I lose interest and throw it all out; the process of write->publish is simpler now. A lot of authors I subscribe to recommend making that flow as easy as possible; I think I achieved that.

We’ll see how things work out!