The last one was in 2014. Eleven years later, I’ve scraped together the randomness that is my online presence to kick off a new version of “Shawn does a website”.
I started designing this over a year ago with every intention of lighting the rockets for a polished, engaging experience that looked just as snappy as the people I admire out here. And I fell right into the old perfectionist trap like I always do. Well, that and several rage-fueled development sessions that made me need a big break from trying to engineer a website. I am a visual designer at heart and I can imagine and sculpt a wonderful vision for what I want, but the technical process of taking it from design to function is where I’m a little behind. But every challenge is a new opportunity to learn, and I finally had the drive to tackle this again.
It’s a work in progress. I hate releasing WIPs because I know the dopamine boost that just having something out there will make me feel great in the moment and rob me of the drive to improve it after the fact. But part of getting better at anything is acknowledging the predictable and building a way around that. I’m not spilling secrets here, not yet, but a system is in place to avoid the fates that have fallen for other projects.
Whether anyone even finds my little spot on the internet or not, I’m in love with the journey of learning all the stuff I want to learn about managing a website and making it cool, and this will be my little tinker spot and idea dump.
Speaking of ideas, I have never really settled on a cohesive set of topics to write about, and I don’t think I shall anytime soon. I have a lot to learn about writing and I know there are miles to go yet before I really understand the style I enjoy writing in and the topics that keep me coming back to write more. We may be about to change all of that.
This will be a fun ride.
P.S. No editing was done on this post. It’s raw, it’s messy, it’s all out of fucks to give.
