Hello, world — why I built this site

This is the first post on my new site. I built it because I wanted one place that actually belongs to me — not a feed, not someone else’s platform — where I can think out loud and keep a record of what I’m working on.

What you’ll find here

I’m a high school senior who spends a lot of time around technology. A few threads show up again and again, and they’re what I plan to write about:

• Homelab & infrastructure — the servers, services, and networking I run at home, and the inevitable lessons learned when something breaks at 1am.
• Coding — projects I’m building, tools I like, and the occasional deep dive when I finally understand something that confused me for a week.
• Philosophy — questions I keep coming back to, and what reading old arguments does to how I think about new ones.
• Competitive debate — research, cases, and what rounds teach me about evidence and persuasion.

Why write at all

Writing forces me to actually finish a thought. If I can’t explain a setup or an idea clearly, I probably don’t understand it as well as I assumed. So this blog is partly a notebook and partly a way to keep myself honest.

More soon. If something here is useful — or wrong — I’d genuinely like to hear about it.