I’m updating my site! The old one felt too much like LinkedIn slop and was pretty disconnected to what I wanted my site to be.
Some changes
- Way more minimal!
Revamped the theme and way less stuff to scroll through.
- Improved the copy.
More genuine, less LinkedIn-y. Showing things for what they are. I don’t think anyone even visited the old site, but even I couldn’t stand seeing my own site talking about my passions for leveraging cutting-edge technologies championing cross-functional initiatives, building at the intersection of AI, Crypto, Healthcare, Finance, B2B SaaS…
- I have a “writings” page now.
My brain has been stuck on consume mode for so long, I forgot what it’s like to actually write something.
How it’s built
I used Hugo, and everything’s written in HTML and CSS. The posts are written in markdown and I guess Hugo works its magic converting markdown to HTML.
I was about to say this was deployed on Vercel, and for about 3-ish hours it was. Then I decided to deploy it on Cloudflare Pages instead. No real reason, for low traffic static sites like this one I really don’t think it’ll make a difference. But I used Vercel so often before, so I thought it’d be neat to try something new. How does Cloudflare even make money?
It didn’t take too long to change it over to Cloudflare. I had to:
- Transfer my DNS to Cloudflare
- Delete some CNAME records
- Set up domain redirecting (
www.nicolasliu.compoints tonicolasliu.com) - And get confused along the way seeing my browser and
curlstill load the old website or not work altogether, leading me to a rabbit hole on local DNS caching.
What’s next?
Hopefully some more writing and sharing interesting stuff I come across online. Could be technical, non-technical, career related, or just dumping what’s on my mind.