Well, after writing my previous post, I quickly discovered GitHub pages has a built-in integration with Jekyll, and publishing a blog looks easy that way. I also re-thought my lazy-loading strategy (just output static HTML files, duh).
I considered removing that post but I want this blog to be a place where I make mistakes, learn from them, and expose the process.
I generaly work iteratively, be it coding, writing, or just about anything else (cooking, parenting even!) It's rare to see the thought process behind the end result of the content you consume, but I often find that to be the most interesting and helpful part.
One reason for that is it's humbling to have your process exposed. If you can show the end result and sweep the messiness of how you got there under the rug, you project more competence, even brilliance. It just came out of my head fully formed like this, I swear!
The loss of that evidence is tragic. In addition to an unrealistic image of your work, it also means you lose your own evidence of growth. I love personal archaeology, looking through my old notebooks and sketchbooks. I find both the seeds of ideas that would eventually become fully-realized projects, as well as work that makes me cringe now. And if I'm seeing something I now consider cringeworthy, I've improved. All that is lost when you can delete and rewrite instead of scratching out.
So I'm leaving the post (with a link to this one) in the interest of archaeology. For whatever expertise I have, I want to show others that it's always a process and rarely a straight line for me. And that's something I want to exhibit rather than erase.
EDIT: Another update!
