From May 5th to May 27th, I went on a vacation with my parents and my brother that started in the Bay Area and moved all the way to the canyon areas in Arizona and Utah and ended in Las Vegas. Here are brief descriptions of the things we did and what I thought about them.

After finishing the general architecture of the site and automating post generation via Jekyll, I turned to styling the site. Previously I had left this task to front-end frameworks like Foundation, but for the new site all of the CSS will be written by me (with the exception of the reset and basic styling provided by normalize.css). I approached it in a way that does not seem very logical when looking back on it.

This is the fourth iteration of my site (yes, the current version in the header does not reflect that). The driving force behind this rewrite is a desire to create something from the base up, without using some framework to eliminate the heavy lifting. Previous iterations of the site have used Foundation, themes, or have been based very heavily on other people’s sites. This time I would like to make something that reflects my own vision (without compromises made due to the framework I am using) and that is representative of my ability (whatever that may be).