Building This Site

Goals

This site is a personal landing page and blog built by a software engineer who values simplicity, feedback, and continuous improvement — principles rooted in Extreme Programming (XP) by Kent Beck.

What we're building

• A clean, fast personal site to share ideas, projects, and technical writing
• A blog to document learnings and contribute back to the engineering community
• A portfolio that reflects real engineering values: working software over heavy process

How we're building it

• Hugo + Hextra — static site generation for speed, simplicity, and zero runtime dependencies
• GitHub Pages — straightforward deployment, version-controlled content
• XP practices — small incremental steps, simple design, and feedback at every stage
• YAGNI — we add what we need, when we need it

Principles

1. Simplicity — do the simplest thing that could possibly work
2. Feedback — ship early, iterate based on what we learn
3. Communication — write clearly, build in the open
4. Courage — refactor ruthlessly, delete what doesn't serve the reader