Hello and welcome, to my fears.

As far back as I can remember I have had a fear of being in the public. Speeches, presentations, seminar, even stand-ups, paralyze me with that stammering voice, shaky leg, and clammy peripherals familiar to anyone unfortunate enough to be afflicted with the same composition. While not an uncommon fear (unverified but it feels true), this is one of a smattering that can truly hamper ones career and personal ambitions. As such, I’ve decided to create this blog to document the various projects I create or partake in, and start expanding my shell and to shake off that public anathema.

This site was built (the passive tense is quite purposeful here) by Claude Opus 5.5 in about 5 minutes using Astro, written in HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, and deployed to a cloudflare worker. As much as I desired to create this by hand, like the good ’ol days, we have got to a point where it feels purposefully obstinate to run that kind of mental exercise. That being said, I hereby pledge all current and future posts to be artisanal hand-written text - harvested straight from my own grey matter.

Mike