They’re much-maligned, but personally I think that writing would be less interesting without them. If they can be used in a manner that doesn’t already state the obvious, they’re a great way to convey: how? to what extent? I couldn’t decide what to put on the home page for this new version of the site, so for now it’s displaying a collection of adverbs that I enjoy.

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

Some things that I've been thankful for lately include: coconut smoothies, cotton candy sunsets, bare feet on hardwood floors, sandwiches from Radio Bakery, the new Gracie Abrams record, being completely submerged in the ocean

In other news, I completely redesigned and rebuilt this website over the

2020 was a crazy year in more ways than one. Just prior to the onset of the global pandemic that completely upended our daily routines, I had decided to quit my job of over 7 years in order to pursue learning JavaScript full time. And in between the scrambling to find toilet paper, the countless Zoom calls to catch up with friends & family, and the weeks I spent hammering my way through an intense software engineering bootcamp, I

I'm excited to finally present my personal website, which was built using Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify. During the process of creating this website, I decided to experiment with the JAMstack - a web development architecture built on client-side JavaScript, APIs and Markup - to build something super fast and secure. I chose Gatsby over other static site generators because I was already familiar with React and curious to learn more about querying with GraphQL. I knew I wanted my website