I want my personal website to mirror - to the extent that I can - the experience that you would have if we met in a warm setting. That warm setting can be imagined as the range between me hosting someone at mine to us sharing a common interest; perhaps better described as an interaction that is somewhat friendship-shaped.
Depending on what is the intersectionality in the venn diagram of our interests, I could be taking about one of a few things (non-exhaustive):
- I self-host all my websites from home and actually from that laptop there
- I’ve been working on this really cool project. It’s still a work-in-progress but I can give you a demo here.
- I ran into this problem at work recently. This is how we fixed it.
- I did something funky in my coffee making process and the result was interesting. I want you to try this out.
- I analyse chess games sometimes and I would like you to go through them too and let me know if you have thoughts somewhere. I can also analyse one of your games.
I see that just text is often not the right medium. I want my web space to be more dynamic. I want to be able to render chess puzzles and analyses of chess games here too. I want to share opinions on coffee, tech, travel, etc. and the more meta aspects of them. I also want it to be such that when you are on my website, you can navigate to the interactions and conversations that are interersting to you - and filter out the rest.