New website
Today I’m launching my website redesign. I hope that you like it. Comparing the new design to the old one1, my design seems to accidentally commemorate the soft ending of my career as a techincal writer. (I continue to search for and take software development roles.) We’ve gone from “bold and friendly” to “brutal and web-traditional” as I transformed from curious observer of software to grisled maintainer of software. The purple accent is gone and has been replaced with blues and blacks (in light mode) and yellows (in dark mode), and the IBM Plex Sans typeface has been replaced by your browser’s default serif typeface. For most of you, that’s probably Times New Roman, bread null butter. “Times New Roman,” writes typographer Matthew Butterick, “connotes apathy.” While I’d often agree, I wanna ask him if all stoicism is apathy, then? I hope my redesign broadcasts to readers my pragmaticism and connects me to the ancestral proto-social web where hobbyists and developers shared knowledge and experience for free, openly, via HTTP and RSS.
With the redesign comes some new pages, as well: the colophon, and a /now page.