Why does this site exist?

It’s a fair question, and I’d rather answer it before someone else asks.

Most personal sites exist because someone read that they should have one. Personal brand, visibility, that whole industry. That’s not this. I have no intention of building a brand; I already have a name, and it’s done fine so far.

Here’s the actual reason. I think by asking questions. Not the rhetorical kind you deploy in meetings to sound clever, but the kind that comes out of a thought experiment: why is this system behaving this way? Maybe it’s the cache. Alright, suppose it is the cache — then what should happen if we turn it off? And when you turn it off and the behaviour doesn’t change, you’ve learned something worth writing down.

The problem is that I was writing these things down in places where they go to die: notebooks, chat threads, the occasional doomed wiki page. A wiki page at work has the life expectancy of a mayfly. So the question became: what happens if I put them somewhere that survives reorgs?

This site is the experiment. Plain text, built with Hugo, no tracking, no comments section, no newsletter popup asking for your email like a car guard asking for R5. Just writing.

Will it work? No idea. That’s rather the point of an experiment.