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Sun, 17 Oct 2021 12:31:28 -0500

According to the IANA records, I purchased this domain in January of 2014 in the hope of setting up a personal website for myself to showcase my projects, work, and interests. But as a developer, we all like to tinker with all sorts of shiny new technology instead of doing the bare minimum needed to publish something on the web. Right?

According to my first commit on this website’s repo on Jun 4, 2014, I started with a simple Node/Express application hosted behind an Nginx server running on an AWS EC2 free tier that I got for being a student. I’m not going to go back to that commit, run the application, and see what it looked like. So instead, I found the first internet archive snapshot (taken in Dec 2015), and it looks like this.

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Initial Commit