New site for 2024

I finally redid my site. Well, kind of. I rebuilt it with a new design in Nuxt, but ran into some issues with Nuxt and really didn't love how it was going. After beating my head against the wall and making no progress, I finally gave up and stuck with the original tech stack (Gridsome). Gridsome is fine, but like a lot of open source projects, it hasn't been updated often. No judgement.

Both Nuxt and Gridsome are based on Vue. I like Vue, it makes sense to me, pug and sass are fully supported, and the components and scoped sass are very clean and easy to make sense out of.

I still have a lot of work to do. The links in the portfolio are hard coded, which isn't ideal. The Unsplash links are also hard coded, but that's going to be tricky. I think I can automagically embed my portfolio and paginate it, but I haven't figured it out yet. And of course I still need to update my portfolio, which seems to be a common refrain in my professional life, but it's a start. And I think that's fine for now: a start.

That's my 2024 wisdom. A start of something is better than doing nothing until it's perfect.