Building again
Writing code frequently enough that I'm bringing raveesh.xyz back.
I’d pretty much abandoned my personal blog, but decided to bring it back since I’m spending so much more time in VS Code. This is a repost of what I wrote there, and hopefully a sign that I’ll be writing a lot more frequently.
It's been a year and a half since I wrote something here at all. While I moved over somewhat to Substack, I never quite enjoyed it, while writing on this page via Github was a bit of a hassle.
However, I finally find myself in VSCode on a weekly basis, tinkering more and more as ChatGPT's fueled my desire to explore, prototype quick hacks, and ship. For real – I actually shipped something! This tweet below describes the mental change I've been trying to make that's been paying dividends.
Given the rapid decline in idea 🔁 prototype time, I *really* hope we see a change in mentality where we all swap "I wish there was a solution to X" to "How might we solve X".
— Raveesh Bhalla (@raveeshbhalla) March 26, 2023
On top of that, need to give major kudos to Vercel for making the developer experience of building for the web so much better than what I last remember (circa 2013). I mean this about both their own platform, as well as NextJS (which I'm finally getting the hang of). Putting together this new site as a replacement for my old Jekyll driven one was actually fun – though I still need to get around to finally getting comfortable with CSS!
Hopefully you all see me write more often. And more importantly, ship more often.