A return and a redesign

It's hard to believe I haven't added to my site in a year. There's a few reasons why:

1. Life got busy.

2. I started feeling pretty cynical about sharing on the web in general. What is the point of writing here when it's just going to get slurped up and repurposed in a chat UI, and generate a tonne of spam email to my inbox?

3. I decided I wanted to fully rebuild and redesign the site from scratch, and didn't want to post until it was done. It took a long-ass time, probably because I wrote most of the code myself.

I've been itching to get back to sharing again. I've kept up the writing in my journals, but I want to return to writing online. The spam is only increasing¹, but every now and then a real human being does find this site, and we have a nice interaction. I don't want us (the indie web) to lose that!

There will be more posts with details to follow, for sure, but here's a quick recap of the year:

• My husband and I turned 40.
• We got a puppy - truly the best/worst decision of my life.
• I got an autism diagnosis.
• The nature of my job has completely changed, and I'm still coming to terms with it.
• My kids are both in school now. They need much less from me physically but so much more from me mentally. Also there's a lot of driving people to and from places.

Talk soon x