GitHub Pages to Consolidate My Ideas

Why I Chose GitHub Pages to Consolidate My Ideas

Over the years, I’ve scattered my thoughts, experiments, and projects across so many platforms it would make your head spin:

• Blogger
• Tumblr
• Medium
• Ghost
• WordPress

Each platform had its moment, but none of them really stuck. They felt like borrowed apartments rather than my own house. And the problem with rented spaces is simple: sooner or later, you outgrow them, they change the rules, or they lock you out.

So here I am, consolidating everything under one roof, my roof, hosted on GitHub Pages.

Why consolidate?

Because my creative and technical journey has always been about finding ways to capture, shape, and share ideas. But it’s easy to lose track when those ideas live in a hundred different places. Over the years, my workflow included:

• Notebooks: shelves full of handwritten notes, sketchbooks, and margins scribbled with pipelines, lecture plans, story beats, or random breakthroughs at 2 a.m.
• Roam Research: a promising graph-based knowledge system, but it left me worried about lock-in and portability.
• Obsidian: my current day-to-day knowledge base, solid and local-first with powerful linking , but I’m using it for now until something better comes along, since the publishing workflow still feels incomplete.
• Bear: beautifully designed, but stuck in the Apple ecosystem , I wanted platform independence.
• Jira: useful for production pipelines, issue tracking, and team collaboration, but overkill for personal knowledge management.

All of these tools had strengths. But they also had friction:

• Sync challenges
• Vendor lock-in
• Limited version control
• Closed or proprietary formats
• High overhead just to publish ideas

Why GitHub Pages?

Because it brings together what all those tools taught me about knowledge and storytelling, and fixes their biggest weaknesses:

✅ Open , Markdown, plain text, universally readable, no walled garden
✅ Versioned , I can track every change, rollback, branch, and evolve ideas just like code
✅ Free , no subscriptions, no vendor fees
✅ Under my name , I own the domain, the repo, the content
✅ Simple , a Jekyll site built on Markdown, with the Git history behind it
✅ Futureproof , Git is not going anywhere

GitHub Pages is where I get to own my own destiny.

How this fits my journey

For decades, I’ve been building creative pipelines , at Disney, Weta, Imageworks, EA, Digital Domain , where version control, clarity, and reproducibility are non-negotiable. Pipelines don’t exist without trust in how data flows.

That’s the mindset I’m bringing to my personal archive.

I’m treating my own writing, experiments, breakdowns, and reflections the same way I treated multi-million-dollar animated assets and shot data , with intention, organization, and a permanent record.

In a sense, GitHub Pages is my “personal production pipeline.”

The final consolidation

I’m rolling everything up here:

• My writing
• My code
• My pipelines
• My thoughts on AI
• My sketches and explorations
• My technical breakdowns

No more link rot. No more ephemeral blogging platforms changing their monetization models or breaking old posts.

This is my digital home.

One roof. My roof.

And if I want to pack up and move again someday? The entire house comes with me, thanks to plain text and Git.

That’s why I chose GitHub Pages.