Things change over the years. When I first registered and created palmar.org it was my personal everything page. It was meant as a landing page, in some ways an introduction. I never added much content to it in any of its iterations. I’m just not the sharing type.
The role the page played since 2014 was essentially a collection of links to various marginally relevant links, such as my CV, my social media profiles, blog, and projects. It went through a few iterations, mostly experiments with deployment strategies and shallow design studies, but the content remained largely static.
I have no need for a “business card” type of page anymore. My career has moved on, quickly. I now run a consultancy whose business is completely separate from this space. I may do a short write-up on my real career at some point, but don’t count on it.
I am retiring the original idea of this space.
What this page will be from now on is a very, very personal collection of links and notes. There is no longer any pressure on the page to be “correct” or “presentable”. It is not the space I will share with potential employers or clients.
One thing every iteration of palmar.org has shared is my unending quest for minimalism. This design choice isn’t necessesarily out of some aesthetic pursuit of pleasing minimalism. It is rather a testament to my own lack of quality in frontend design, coupled with my compulsive need to understand what I am doing. The only way I can make sense of a page like this is to make it simple enough for me to understand.
The pattern is as simple as it gets. Collection of static HTML files backed by a CSS small enough for me to understand every line and to write any additions I need by hand. Shove it in a repository that is directly pulled by the web server hosting it.
Even my writing pattern has been intentionally simplified. I write in markdown and use pandoc to chew on it and spit it out as html. This isn’t a blog, I don’t need sophisticated writing tools and analytics. This is a notebook by me, and mostly, for me.
I’ve never really been sure of how much of my inner technical musings and ideas I want to share with the world. I’m uncomfortable using social media for this role, it just doesn’t feel personal enough.
I have always wanted a corner of the internet that is mine. It doesn’t need to be read by anyone, it just needs to exist. It’s 2026 now and the time is right to allow this space to be what it needs to be. It’s been abandoned for years and it may be so again. But I’ve at least given myself the framework to work on it.