The First Commit

Every developer remembers their first commit. That moment when an idea stops being abstract and starts becoming real. This is mine.

The Node Log is where I document the work that fills my days and the experiments that push my understanding forward. Development projects, design ideas, infrastructure rabbit holes, and the growing archive of lessons learned along the way. Some entries will follow the path of building something new: standing up a self-hosted service, wiring a database into place, chasing down why a container refuses to behave. Others will just be notes to my future self.

The deeper I go, the more the landscape expands. Every solved problem reveals two more waiting underneath. That's the appeal.

I'm doing all of this on a budget, which means every tool and service has to be earned through creativity rather than cost. No managed hosting safety nets. No throwing money at problems. Just documentation, patience, and the occasional mass of docker logs.

Through it all, I keep my front-end roots close. Design and development aren't separate disciplines for me. They're part of every decision. A good application needs more than working code; it needs clarity, usability, and an experience worth having. UX and UI remain my strongest ground, and they shape how I approach every new challenge.

So here we are. First commit pushed. Let's see where this goes.