Hello, world

I’ve relaunched my personal site. The one you’re reading. Not a newsletter, not a brand, not a Substack with a paid tier—just a place to put things.

You’ll find writing here, mostly short-form. Book reviews, album notes, the occasional essay when something lodges in my head and won’t leave. Links to things I’ve read and found worth passing along. There’s a timeline on the front page that pulls together everything—posts, film ratings from Letterboxd, books from Goodreads, games from Backloggd—into something resembling a log of what I’m paying attention to.

The design is intentionally quiet. Serif type, warm colours, no sidebar full of widgets demanding your attention. It’s meant to feel like a website rather than a platform, which is a distinction that shouldn’t need making but increasingly does.

I built the thing that runs this site, which is either admirable or pathological depending on your perspective. There’s a project post about that if you’re curious about the how. This post is more concerned with the why: I wanted somewhere to write that didn’t belong to anyone else, looked the way I wanted it to look, and didn’t try to optimise my words for engagement.

That’s it. No publishing schedule, no promises about frequency. Things will appear here when they appear.