Why I rebuilt my personal site

For a long time my personal domain redirected to a CV. That was lazy of me, and I knew it. The CV did its job — it told strangers I exist and that I have shipped things — but it never told them anything about why.

This rebuild is the answer to that.

What I wanted

Three things, in order:

1. A place that feels like somebody, not something. If you only ever read the home page, you should walk away with a sense of who I actually am — the place I’m from, the work that obsesses me, the small loves that shape what I make.
2. A real philosophy page. Not a tagline, not a five-bullet manifesto on the home — a long-form piece I can update for years and that does the heavy lifting for the strangers who want the long version.
3. A blog where the posts are just files. Drop a markdown file in the right folder, push, done. No CMS, no admin UI, no WordPress 5.x → 6.x upgrade anxiety.

What I deliberately removed

• Stats and metrics from the home page. Those belong on the portfolio.
• The five-email contact maze. There’s one email now: contact@cjaviersaldana.com.
• Anything that reads like a sales pitch on the front door. The home is the introduction. The pitch lives where pitches belong.

What stayed

• A perfect Lighthouse score. The site still hits 100/100/100/100 mobile and Mozilla Observatory A+, because performance and security are part of how a page reads, not extra polish on top.
• A strict CSP, self-hosted fonts, and zero render-blocking JavaScript. Even a personal site can be a small example of how the web should feel.

What’s next

I’ll be writing here regularly — short notes from building in public, the AI tooling experiments that actually paid off, and the occasional history detour. If anything resonates, write me.

Vamos a construir.