About
I’m a software developer based in Seattle, with a background in infrastructure automation and CI/CD systems. My expertise lies in SRE and DevOps, and I enjoy exploring ways to improve operational capabilities. In my free time, I like to program, cook, and build furniture for my home to continually challenge my creativity and acquire new skills.
I created this site to share techniques and recipes I’ve learned with others who also appreciate cooking and maker culture. The main impetous for creating this site was to have a reprieve from the SEO monstrosities that are all you find if you do a naive search.
The recipes featured here are ones that I’ve made multiple times and want to recreate. I’ve simplified the steps as much as possible while still offering tips to make each recipe truly great. Whenever I discover a new recipe that I enjoy, I add it to the site.
The site is built with Sveltekit in TypeScript, Tailwindcss, MDSveX, and . Currently it’s hosted on Vercel, but I’m considering moving the frontend to the same VPS that runs the Pocketbase backend.
This is the fourth iteration of my site, with each version introducing significant improvements. I started with Jekyll, a reliable default option since it’s used by Github. Then I moved to Hugo, which offered faster development speed and an improved overall experience. Discovering Svelte was a game-changer, as it embraces the fundamental building blocks of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, setting it apart from other frameworks that attempt to obscure the platform.
Svelte and Sveltekit deliver a superior developer experience, while also enabling me to create interactive components that are incredibly lightweight. Additionally, they are much easier to work with compared to technologies like Next and React. I prefer not to deal with the full complexity of GraphQL just for fun.
The payoff is I can embed components like the one below at a very low cost. This example component weighs less than 7kb in total, and the implementation is relatively readable.