One step closer to completing the jtiong.com project, I finally laid down the groundwork for the Photos section of the site. It’s always been something I wanted to include in the website, being able to share photos of my adventures and hobbies with the few friends & family who visit this website from time to time!

To give some insight into how jtiong.com currently works, it is a marriage between a WordPress backed blog for my Blog entries and my sections as “sub-sites” in subdirectories like /games or /labs. By doing so, I get the feature and stability(😏) benefits of using (I dare say) the world’s most popular blogging CMS/platform; and the flexibility of adding in dynamic features that suits my needs like Game Server info, network status, and other integrations to the site.

It’s been a bit of a steep learning curve (if the number of commits I’ve done in the month of March alone is anything to go by) but there’s been something really fulfilling in finally building the site that I’ve always wanted to but never quite had the time to.

That’s not to say the site is perfect, but there’s beauty and perfection in the very journey of just building this, and maintaining it, and eventually (over time) evolving it into whatever my needs require.

Just in that alone, there’s the Ikigai, Kaizen and Wabisabi of it all.

Update: 20th March 2026

The Photos section is completed in design! It took a moment longer than normal but I managed to shoe-horn the functionality of mobile/sidebar stuff into the WordPress ecosystem properly <3

All done 🙂