How This Site Is Built
This is a personal site — somewhere to write, and somewhere people can find out who I am and what I work on. The constraint I gave myself was no hosting bill. That turned out to be a useful forcing function: it pushed everything toward clean, minimal architecture, where each component has exactly one job. The about page has a chatbot on it. That was a deliberate choice, not a novelty — if someone wants to know whether I’ve worked with Kubernetes or led a platform team, they can just ask rather than scanning bullet points. It also gave me something interesting to build. ...