Purpose

I decided to –finally– open a site about myself. I never really consider doing it. Partly because I thought it was best to let facts and projects speak by themselves. However, as time passed by, I find it increasingly important to remind yourself about the things you have accomplish. With two objectives: (1) to serve as motivation to keep working in the things you love and (2) so those projects are not forgotten, or are better taken care of.

I chose to open a static site (using Gatsby) because the following reasons:

• I am already familiar with the technology
• I find Markdown the best format to write posts in a minimal way
• Minimalism makes thing preserve in time, removing part of the fatigue of seeing the same things over and over
• A static site can be delivered in a very fast fashion by a number of free services
• It’s flexible enough to allow me play with low-level browser APIs and brind smalls samples of my past work to interactive pieces in this very site

This last point is specially important since a heavy part of the things I want to showcase are not finite things but living projects; My coding activity; The latest version to a certain app; A visualization of a certain state. All those are things that change through time, and I need access to code to better portray those realities in a single article. That is impossible for me to do in most platforms (Tumblr, Medium & alike) and so the only way to achieve it is to fork my own system.

I have no interest in update this site super frequently, but rather when there is something that I want to share worth showcasing. I am a very eclectic person, so rather than publishing blog entries, I’ll keep Medium as the platform where I write and develop ideas, and keep entries here simple enough to understand what has been done.

Written by Jesús Darío from Sevilla who is an engineer and an entrepreneur 🐦 @jsdario