Hello, World: Why I'm Writing on the Internet in 2026
Everyone says blogging is dead. I disagree — here's why I started this blog, what I'll write about, and why you might want to start one too.
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Somehow, “blogging is dead” has been the consensus for about fifteen years now — and yet here I am, hitting publish on a brand-new personal tech blog in 2026. Let me explain myself.
The short version
I learn things, I forget things, and then I re-learn the same things six months later. This blog is my attempt to break that cycle. Every post here is a note to future-me, published in public just in case it helps present-you too.
The best way to learn something deeply is to explain it to someone else. The second best way is to write it down where your future self can find it.
What you’ll find here
This isn’t a niche blog with a content strategy and a posting calendar. It’s a personal one, so expect whatever I’m genuinely interested in at the time. In practice, that means:
- Practical tutorials — things I actually built, with working code you can copy.
- Deep dives — topics like closures, CSS layout, or Git internals, explained the way I wish someone had explained them to me.
- Field notes — tools, setups and workflows I’m trying out, with honest verdicts.
- Opinionated rants (occasionally) — I promise to keep these short and well-argued.
What you won’t find here
- AI-generated filler. Every word here was typed by a human (me), fueled by coffee.
- “10x developer” hustle content. I write code, I make mistakes, I fix them. That’s the whole brand.
- Paywalls, popups, or newsletter guilt-trips. There’s an RSS feed and that’s it.
Why a blog and not just tweets or videos?
Nothing against short-form content, but some ideas need more than 280 characters and a thread emoji. A blog post:
- Is searchable — Google can find it years later. Good luck finding a tweet from 2023.
- Is permanent — I own this site. No algorithm decides who sees it.
- Forces clarity — writing 1,000 words about something exposes every gap in my understanding.
That last point is the real reason I’m here. Writing is thinking, and publishing is accountability.
The plan
New posts every couple of weeks. If you want to follow along, grab the RSS feed, star the repo on GitHub, or just bookmark the site like it’s 2009.
And if you’re thinking of starting your own blog: do it. It costs nothing — I built this entire site with Jekyll and GitHub Pages for free, and I wrote a whole tutorial about it.
See you in the next post. ✍