Hello, new site
Why I moved off Wix, and what I plan to do with this space.
This is the first post on the rebuilt site. The old one lived on Wix and served me well for a few years as a job-search portfolio. This new version is something different: a place for work, learning reflections, and writing, built on a stack I actually understand end-to-end.
Why rebuild it
Two reasons, both about learning.
First, I wanted to practice modern engineering discipline — git, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, least-privilege IAM — by doing it, not by reading about it. Wix hides all of that. A static site on S3 and CloudFront with a GitHub Actions deploy pipeline puts every layer in front of me.
Second, I wanted a place that grows with me rather than one I set up once and forget. A content collection of markdown posts is cheap to add to. No CMS, no database, no dashboard — just a file in a folder and a PR.
What this site is (and isn’t)
It is: a small, fast, honest personal site. Work samples, reflections, occasional writing. Built as a vertical slice — layout, pages, one real blog post running through a content collection — with everything else still to come.
It isn’t: a portfolio for a job search, or an attempt to reproduce the old Wix site faithfully. The scope has changed.
More soon.