I am not a fan of new year's resolutions, but sometimes the pause in work results in thinking and action that would not have occured otherwise.

I'll turn 30 in January, and I've realized I don't have much to show for it. If you know me you might find this idea strange. I have a wife, a cute kid, a nice apartment, and a pretty decent career in an interesting field.

What I mean to say is, I've done a pretty bad job of cataloging things. I barely remember what my life was like ten years ago, and in another ten I'll likely be able to say the same thing about today.

Pre-kid, I could kind of ignore this problem, and frankly it wasn't so extreme. But having a young child is a massive time compressor. I was never one for memories or reminiscing, but now my brain just feels like a sieve. I feel like I owe it to my kids to write something down.

My previous attempts at blogging were more for promotional and career reasons. I never considered publishing personal content. I've always preferred to be mysterious.

But I've realized that there are no returns to being mysterious. Perhaps it's a good trick for attracting women, but I have no need for that anymore.

Luckily, having a cool blog no longer requires CSS debugging. I whipped up this blog template with Claude in about ten minutes. I had it create a dev server with hot reloading so we could iterate on it together.

So my new years resolution, as much as I hate to say it, is to post something here every day for the next year. Maybe I'll rig up Claude so I can send it an email and it can do the HTML formatting and publishing for me. That would be cool.

Till tomorrow,
Mike