tom notes

A place for things in progress

Why a small, personal website still feels like a good idea.

There’s something satisfying about having a small place on the internet that can change at your own pace. No feed to keep up with. No perfect launch to wait for. Just a page, a few ideas, and room to grow.

This is sample writing for the new site. It shows how an article looks with a proper introduction, a few headings, and enough space to breathe.

For a complete formatting reference, explore the Markdown kitchen sink: headings, lists, quotations, code, tables, images, footnotes, and more.

Start with something small

A personal site doesn’t need to explain everything about you. A short introduction, a useful note, or a project you enjoyed making is plenty to begin with.

The useful part is giving those things a home. A note can become a reference. An experiment can become a project. An unfinished idea can become the next thing you work on.

A good place to start is the thing you keep wanting to explain to someone else.

Leave room to change your mind

The structure here is deliberately simple:

  • Writing for notes, observations, and longer pieces.
  • Projects for things built and experiments worth documenting.
  • About for a little context about the person behind it all.

Each entry lives in a plain Markdown file. Add another file, rebuild the site, and the lists update themselves.

Keep going

The next step is yours: replace this article with something you want to share. It doesn’t need to be comprehensive. It just needs to be a beginning.