I’ve updated my website for the first time since September 2023. Unlike this blog, which tends to be updated at least monthly, I hadn’t touched the website in 2024, even though there were a few important things to update on.
The reasons for this are mainly that, as this blog is built using Quarto, and Quarto is a form of markdown, there’s just much less web dev scaffolding to attend to. I can largely focus on figuring out what I want to write, rather than - for example - how to style and display text, graphics and other elements in a way that looks pleasing or professional.
By contrast, the website is made using React, a javascript static site framework, and styled from scratch using many dozens of custom CSS styles I developed after marinating and confusing myself with around fifty hours of online website development courses, mainly through Dave Gray’s excellent youtube channel.
Anyway, changes made include:
- Update footer copyright date to 2025 (skipping 2024!)
- Updated to include my new job as a senior statistician at Smith & Nephew, which I’ve been doing since September.
- Opened up some present but previously hidden information about the kinds of things I do in my current and previous roles. (These were stored as json data structure elements, where I’d already written the content, but then not told react to do anything with it!)
- Added mentions of statistics as a distinct area of expertise. (As distinct from data science)
- Added links to the statistics website I developed, which grew out of sections of this blog.
Anyway, the updated website, like the previous website, is available here.