Welcome to my site 👋. This is my place on the web to share thoughts, journal about some fun projects, and tell stories.
I've had a couple false starts while trying to become a regular writer on the web. But this is as close as I've come in
a very long time. I think that's because I was never really happy with the technology choices I had to quickly get a
site running. Years ago, I saw a talk at a conference about the IndieWeb and <a href="https://indieweb.org/POSSE">POSSE</a> which
resonated with me. Since then, I knew I didn't want all my writing to be on third-party websites (e.g. Medium, Blogger,
Tumblr, etc.). I started a blog by deploying the <a href="https://wordpress.org/">Wordpress</a> open source project on a hosted
server. But 😩 PHP - it wasn't very fun to work on. I'm a big fan of working in JavaScript, so when the
<a href="https://ghost.org/">Ghost</a> platform came out, I tried again. Despite it being an open source project, I felt like it
limited my ability to change much without making a serious investment in learning the codebase.
Update (April 27, 2021): The next paragraph is out of date. I've since transitioned to using Next.js and I love it!
I'll make a more meaningful update to this post soon.
I'm doing something different this time. I'm using <a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/">Gatsby</a> to build the site and hosting it
on <a href="https://zeit.co/home">Now by Zeit</a>. Gatsby starts small, and allows me to be intentional about the parts I want to
add over time. It also lets me flex my programming muscles with a more modern set of technologies: React, GraphQL, and
TypeScript. Now is extremely well-designed and has the best combination of simplicity, power, and price that I've found.
I feel pretty good about this. So good, in fact, that I've shared <a href="https://github.com/aoberoi/me">the source on GitHub</a>.
There's plenty of work to do on this site, but I hope you'll stick around and come visit again. Thanks for stopping by.

Ankur Oberoi

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