Rebooting this website

It's been a while.

The last article I published here was back in 2020, when I wrote about my /uses page. Looking back, it's hard to believe how much has changed since then, both in my life and in the tools I use every day. Updating that page is definitely overdue, but I'll save that for another day.

The world went through the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, life moved on, and over the years this website slowly stopped being a priority.

Not because I stopped building things, quite the opposite.

Since then, I've been working at EverQuote, where I've had the opportunity to work on products at a much larger scale than ever before. I also married my life partner, Nuria, and not long afterwards our family started to grow. First came Berta, and two years later Elio, by far the biggest and best change in our lives.

Like many people, I simply had different priorities.

Simplifying things

One thing I did want to improve was where all my personal projects live.

Over the years I ended up hosting different sites across AWS, Vercel, Netlify, Google Cloud and a few other places. It was fun, and a great excuse to learn and compare different platforms, but it also meant jumping between providers every time I wanted to touch one of my projects.

Lately I've been moving everything to Cloudflare.

For my personal projects, it hits a really nice balance between simplicity, performance and cost. Having hosting, deployments and domain management in the same place makes maintaining everything much easier.

Migrating everything there also gave me the perfect excuse to revisit this website, refresh the content and make it better reflect who I am today.

Looking forward

This isn't a "big relaunch". Just a small reboot.

I have a personal project I'm very excited about and that I hope to start shipping soon.

Its name is SongForm.

My hope is that this website becomes a place where I occasionally document that journey, share things I learn along the way, and publish the odd article when I have something worth sharing.

Why keep writing?

I did wonder whether maintaining a personal website still made sense in a world increasingly filled with AI-generated content, or what better said "AI slop."

The more I thought about it, the more I realised that's exactly why it does.

I use AI every day, both personally and professionally. I think it's one of the most useful TOOLS I've ever had. It helps me build faster, execute ideas more efficiently, research unfamiliar topics and augment my knowledge.

That said, I've found it's most valuable when I already understand the subject well enough to review its output critically, separate facts from hallucinations and apply my own experience.

Personal websites were never about producing as much content as possible. They're about documenting a journey, sharing lessons learned and occasionally building something that someone else might find useful.

AI can help me write. It can help me code. But it can't accumulate my experiences for me.

So here's to rebooting this little corner of the internet.

Hopefully this is the start of writing here a little more often.