First!
August 8, 2026
This is a test of the outdoor warning system… If you’ve ever lived in San Francisco before 2020 you might remember this ominous test warning announcement that occurred every Tuesday at high-noon. Much like that benign warning that became a part of San Franciscan life, this blog is here to become a part of mine: where I can share thoughts, ideas, recipes, and whatever else that comes to mind.
Please don‘t take this as a formal publication, nor a source of truth. I do my best to honor facts, but ultimately this serves as a location for my thoughts; spanning from careful explanations with citations to fun anecdotes I feel like sharing.
How I built this blog
I‘ve had this idea for a while now. My goal was to build a lightweight and content focused publishing system. I wanted something boring. Making site maintenance be a prerequisite to posting would be the quickest way to discourage me from posting. From the beginning I wanted to center the architecture around Markdown since it makes writing content rich material easy. Not only do great tools exist around this concept, but it separates the site architecture from the content itself, giving me the flexibility to change the scaffolding in the future.
I ended up creating a repo with Hugo using the Paper Theme. This lets each post just be a Markdown file with a little bit of file management to pair a hero image. The homepage article list is all dynamically created around the file structure, keeping the source of truth in the filesystem. After setup there should be no effort on my part.
I’m aware that Markdown has its limitations, and I‘m curious to see if I‘ll ever hit them, but for now I‘m super stoked with where I‘m at!