New Website

Starting Over

I wasn’t happy with the website Claude generated for me, so instead of iterating on it further, I decided to build it myself from scratch.

Why SolidJS

I’m not a web dev. I’ve written JavaScript before, but never really worked with a framework on a personal project. For this one I picked SolidJS, for two reasons: I didn’t want to use React, and I’d heard Solid does similar things but better.

Building Everything From Scratch

One tradeoff with SolidJS became obvious fast: there’s no real ecosystem of UI libraries to lean on. Every component and every line of CSS in this project, I wrote myself.

Dev Setup

To make local development easier, I added a Dockerfile and a docker-compose setup.

What’s Left

The site isn’t finished yet. The main thing still missing is buttons for a few actions.