Welcome to my third endeavor running a personal place on the internet. My first attempt was a previous version of this website. That site maybe garnered four or five posts before the server it ran on was repurposed for my subsequent project.

I built the second site back in 2015 for my wedding. It used a MEAN stack and included all of the standard song-n-dance you would expect on such a site as well as a simple RSVP form. The site is long gone but you may still be able to find the code here on GitHub.

While I do not want to produce too much fanfare for a site that does not yet have any real content on it; I do want to provide a brief explanation of what I hope to produce here. I have a tendency to allocate well over 100% of myself into my professional career, my family, and my personal projects. However, as I get a bit older [and further along in my career] I have felt a growing desire to publicly share some of myself with the world. This site is meant to be that medium.

At best I hope to share some of my experiences, projects, and thoughts with you here on this site over the coming months and years. At worst this site will act as some sort of fancy business card for Charlie Crawford the person.

– Charlie

A big thank you to Alex Rutar’s excellent article “How to Build a Personal Webpage from Scratch” for giving me the motivation I needed to get this site back off the ground and to Radek for providing the starting theme for the site.