A screenshot from my homepage redesign. It features my head with the top removed and a bunch of random stuff peaking out from inside, including a kitty, oppossum, pistol, trophy, and my extended middle finger. At the top is a polaroid of me flipping you off that appears to have flown out from the opening in my skull.
So much goddamned animation!

Creating a design themed around my imposter syndrome

Published on : filed under "Imposter syndrome", by WFL

I've been writing code for around 30 years, and I still deal with imposter syndrome.

I've gotten multiple awards, have been featured in inspo sites and listicles, and more importantly get fucking paid to do what I do..

..And yet I still feel like there is a chaos of reality inside me that fights against my accomplishments.

So, I decided that - despite redesigning this site just a few months ago - I'd do yet another redesign.. This time themed around my imposter syndrome (and doing some fun shit on the homepage, of course).

I recently started a bit of a kerfuffle on Reddit (not hard to do, obviously) about AI in the web dev industry. I'm not opposed to using it, but I also refuse to rely on it; More specifically, I refuse to rely on agentic workflows at this time.

I've seen so many goddamned news stories about data leaks, data wipes, and general ohfuckme situations to make me hesitant.. And given how fast agentic tech is changing without reliable guardrails makes me want what is effectively an airgap between my dev environment/build process and AI.

When you pair that with the goddamned blatantly obvious bubble with SaaS AI? Yeah, I'm going to make fucking sure that my imposter syndrome doesn't keep me from pushing myself to maintain my skills rather than relying on AI to do everything for me.

I've lived through a number of bubbles; Most prominently would be the dot com, and later the crypto/blockchain bubbles (that last one just keeps getting re-inflated for whatever goddamned reason, though). I'm gonna bide my time, thankyouveryfuckingmuch.

Anyway, this is the 1.0 release of the redesign. I still have some polish to do here and there, as well as fleshing out some content design tweaks.. But I wanted to get this out now so I can move on to a couple other projects that have a bit of urgency (switching to CachyOS for my dev machine, and also investigating a new CMS/platform for Nerfed Gamer).

So.. That's it. I hurt extra bad today and just want to get this shit deployed, so.. Have a fucking wonderful day, and enjoy the little animated kitty on the homepage (his name is Sphinx, and he doesn't know he's in the redesign).