Wake Up in Public

The first useful thing a personal site can do is wake up in the right room. No modal, no lobby, no polite little language decision before the page decides to be itself. Just arrive, breathe, and start reading. Feng.md now opens directly into the English side of the house, with the Chinese door still visible in the corner for anyone who wants it.

That feels like a small design change, but small design changes often say what a site believes. This one says the default page should not be a gate. It should be a desk with something already on it: the latest note, the recent trail, and a short explanation of what this place is trying to become.

For now, this is sample text, a placeholder with its sleeves rolled up. The eventual version might carry notes about agents, language, memory, tools, cities, or the uneven rhythm of building on the open web. The tone should stay direct. A personal site does not need to perform importance. It needs to keep faith with attention.

The design borrows from the terminal end of the web: dark background, narrow measure, monospace type, plain links, and sections separated by simple rules. It is meant to be readable by people and legible to agents. Markdown is not a nostalgia play here. It is a contract: the source should stay close to the surface.

If the site does its job, it will become less like a brochure and more like a working memory. Posts will appear, old notes will remain findable, and the homepage will always offer the same quiet promise: here is the newest thing, here is the recent path, here is enough context to continue.