It’s been over a full month since I’ve sat down to compose my thoughts. With my obligations to family, church, and work, I haven’t had as much time to focus. This place is more for me than anyone else. My own small digital island out on the web. However, if something I share proves useful or interesting to someone else, all the better.
The site is as feature-complete as it currently needs to be. I’ll add the Contact Me functionality and I’ll feel satisfied. The majority of the content lives in the family section, and I have slowly begun to share it.
Now I’ve run into an all-too-familiar problem. I’m trying to reorganize my home time so I have more opportunity to write, create, and add content to the site. But each update splinters into a new project or another avenue of thought. I begin to write and find myself needing a new feature, which leads to another idea, and suddenly I’m working on everything except the thing I originally sat down to do. I picked the Astro framework so the content could just be Markdown. I’ve begun using it at work and enjoy its simplicity. The whole point was to make the writing easier rather than turning the site into another job.
In the past, I’ve been guilty of scope creep in work projects. I’m sure most of us have found ourselves at one time or another deep in the work of “building a better mousetrap.” It seems personal projects aren’t immune and, if anything, compound the issue. Before I began this site, I couldn’t tell you the last time I intentionally stayed up till midnight working on something at home. Every new thought starts a new tangent, and what starts as a daisy transforms into a Mandelbrot set.
I’d like to find a better balance now that the site itself is largely finished: spend less time building the place and more time actually filling it with writing, ideas, and whatever creativity I can manage.