I ADDED A FEW NEW PAGES TO THIS SITE
Friends, Now, Uses, and a Colophon
I spent a little time this week bolting a few small pages onto this site. None of them are big. None of them needed a design meeting. But together they nudge the site a little more toward the old-school personal web I actually like — the one where a homepage tells you about a person, not a funnel.
/friends
Inspired by Nick Gray’s friends page and the slashfriends.org movement, /friends is just a list of people I know and recommend. Right now it’s one link — Nick himself — but the idea is to let it grow the way an actual friends list grows: slowly, and only with people you’d actually vouch for.
/now
A now page is supposed to answer one question: what are you focused on right now, not what does your résumé say. Mine (/now) covers family, hobbies, work, my photography side hustle, and what I’m currently learning. It’s the page I’ll update instead of writing a “here’s what I’m up to” post every few months.
The convention (via Derek Sivers) is that a now page should read like something you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year — big picture, not a status update. I had to talk myself out of turning it into a trip log.
/uses
The classic uses.tech-style page: the actual gear I use, not an affiliate-link wishlist. /uses currently covers my tech setup and camera gear down to the specific lenses. Running gear is marked “coming soon” because I haven’t gotten around to writing it up yet, not because I’m hiding it.
A colophon, because why not
/colophon is the nerdiest of the four — a page about how the site itself is built. Astro, Tailwind, Cloudinary, Cloudflare Pages, Plausible. If you’ve ever wondered what’s under the hood here, that’s the page.
How I actually built these
All four pages, plus the footer updates and sitemap entries, were built working with Claude Code in a chat interface — I described what I wanted, it asked clarifying questions when the request was genuinely ambiguous (what should the /now page actually say about me, for instance), and I reviewed and refined the copy over a few rounds before anything shipped. It’s a different way of building a site than I’m used to, and it’s fast enough that a page like this is a five-minute decision instead of a weekend project.
Small additions, but the kind of small that makes a personal site feel more like a person.