I’ve moved my personal website to Notion.

For a while, I’ve been struggling to figure out what to do with my site. I always wanted it to be part blog, part project portfolio, part technical resource, but I kept running into distractions to make any kind of content-flow sustainable. I was always finding something to fix, something to optimize, something to build. For a person like me, this is simply too alluring to ignore:

Of course I could buckle down and write that guide for my new open source project, but it’ll look bad next to this janky menu system. Also, my analytics system is kinda busted, I should re-visit that, also the underlying server could use some workflow updates…

And it would just go on.. and on… and on!

I never ended up writing much because I was too “busy” fiddling around. While there is benefit in just playing around and exploring various aspects of tech, it wasn’t solving my core need: Be a place where I can write and publish. Working on the writing platform was too tempting, especially compared to the “less fun” aspects, like, you know, actually writing things down.

So, I’m trying out Notion.

At some point I need to write up a more in-depth review of Notion, but for now, here’s the pitch/justification: Hosting my site on Notion removes (most of) the temptations around fiddling with the site-tech itself. Notion should be just-extendable-enough to power my site, get it organized roughly the way I want, and get out of the way. It should allow me to focus more on actually putting stuff out there and less on the systems around that content delivery.

Will it actually work out that way? Who knows?! But its interesting enough to be worth the try. So that’s why the site looks different (although showing anything other than an SSL error from a server that was ignored for far too long is better).