I think I owed this to myself for many years.
Back in high school (around 2001) I had a dial-up modem. In those years, the internet didn’t attract me at all. I remember even being in love with a girl who had a webpage built on some pre-Facebook platform, but even such personal motivation was not enough.
Of course, it became even easier to maintain this ignorance of building any footprint in the internet in the post-Facebook era, with all the abundance of social platforms.
Later, it became relevant on some stage of my career around 2020 to make a simple portfolio website, but the pre-LLM era didn’t allow me to do it in a way I wanted and could have possibly done.
For sure, I had the impulse of writing several times in my 20s, but mostly because I saw some art and beauty in the process of building a short essay.
So what has changed today
- I have a much higher interest in coding
- It’s LLM era: learning new tools and finding solutions to problems has become supersonic
- I think in the last 2 years I have changed drastically: I’ve become more focused, mature, and confident in my skills - I feel that I need to share this in my own corner of the internet.
Now it’s possible to have fun while “managing” a personal website, my aesthetic inner critic is quite happy, and I can focus on the content.