ok so I just pushed the whole site redesign and honestly? it slaps. been tinkering with this for a while and it finally feels right.

the old site was fine I guess but it didn’t feel like me. too generic, too “built by LLMs” which… yeah it literally was. now it’s warm and has personality. the colors? completely random. I had a good recent photo with this palette — soft cream, muted green, some brown — and just went with it. not some deep design philosophy, just vibes.

made the new one with GLM 5.2. it’s not wow but it’s functional and I like that.

the DAG thing is maybe my favorite part? there’s this faint animated graph behind my name on the homepage and then on the about page my actual career is a DAG. which is dumb and nerdy but like… that’s the whole point. I do causal inference. DAGs are my thing. might as well lean into it.

oh and I made it work for LLMs too. there’s a llms.txt file, clean markdown mirrors of every page, structured data with JSON-LD. I have no idea if google actually cares about any of this but chatgpt and claude can read my site now so that’s cool I guess.

the whole thing is just quarto + github pages. renders from frozen computations so I don’t have to wait around for notebooks to run every time I change a comma. highly recommend.

anyway. gonna try actually writing here regularly. we’ll see how long that lasts lol.