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# Where this site came from
- URL: https://matteson.ca/notes/where-this-site-came-from/
- Published: 2026-01-15T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-10T03:34:17.000Z
- Description: A dashboard aesthetic, a stack of Obsidian notes, and the question of what a personal site is even for in 2026.
- Author: Matteson Machielse
- Tags: ideas, #Import 2026-07-11 07:11, #Import 2026-07-15 05:50

This site started as a screenshot of my Obsidian dashboard and a one-line brief: *futuristic, like the 90s would have been if they’d had our AIs*.

The private vault stays private. What the site does is let the structure show — the notes, the photos, the graph humming behind it all — without handing over the contents. A lit workshop window, not an open door.