Unifying My Domain

A Question of Scope

Bringing all my projects under one roof.

Bring It In

I've been working a lot of small projects lately, learning some cool things, and wanting to write about it all. At the same time, I want to host the projects so I can link to them and show them off.

So I started updating my old site so that I could use it for hosting these projects, but then thought better of it. Instead of blogging on my blog, putting my portfolio on my homepage, and other things on other sites and domains, I'm just going to put it all in one place.

I think this approach is a good idea for a few other reasons too:

• All the code will live in one place so I'll be much more likely to maintain it and keep evolving it over time to be the tool that I want it to be.
• Building things is quicker and easier because I don't have to bootstrap a new project every time.
• I can easily expose all of my ongoing work to the world.
• There's no question about where something new should live.

On the other hand, there are some downsides:

• The project will get big.
• I'll be constrained by the tech and framework I chose here. It'll be more difficult to show off something like a Haskell project.
• Rewrites are tricky to do well. Though I have a leg up here because I'm the demanding stakeholder as well as the developer and customer.

But all in all, I'm excited to be consolidating and updating all of this. It's been fun to do and I'm happy with the results so far. I hope you'll bear with me while the site is missing some of the things that have traditionally been on my domain. I only have so much spare time to devote to the migration.