Hi there, I'm Paul!

Apparently, if you aren't embarrassed by the first version of your site, you launched too late. So I'm launching this as I build it, and I'm mortified that you're seeing it. Please, avert your eyes.

So this is actually roughly the thirty-seventh version of my personal website. That's not important. This could be the first version that I might actually finish.

It contains virtually nothing, except for my old blog posts, and even those have functionality missing as I've not migrated over a bunch of MDX components.

It does have a stupidly over-engineered grid layout system though, so I can do things like this:

To give you an idea of how much I've not done

Here's a list of things I had on my old Next.js site that I now don't...

My "Gaming" page, which linked up with APIs like Steam to show my recently played games
Spotify API integration and embeds
My Diablo III and Diablo IV characters
My living Pokedex
My Destiny reset timer, and Destiny character information
My annual reviews, with a list of things I've done that year and some stats
Carrot clicker, my dumb clicker game that breaks half the time

So what does it do?

Well, I already mentioned the blog, although I'm no longer displaying my drafts
- Not for any particular reason, I just haven't built the page yet
It has a projects page, which is just a list of things I've worked on
I've got fully onboard the /slashes train

Anyway, it's built with Astro (opens in new tab), which is what I built the version before the version before this with. It's come a long way, I'll probably plan to write a blog post about it at some point, then forget about it.