Ryan Little

Building in the open

I rebuilt this site over a weekend. The old one was a single photography page that worked fine, but it had quietly fallen out of date and there was nowhere to put anything that wasn't a photo.

The goals this time were small:

  • One simple, dark homepage that points to everything
  • A real place to write
  • Keep the photography front and center
  • Leave room to grow (a globe, eventually photos pinned to a map)

Keeping it simple

It would be easy to over-build a personal site. I tried not to. It's a handful of pages, a serif I'm partial to, and a deploy script that does git pull && build && restart. That's it.

If you're reading this, it's working.