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2026·01·15/1 min read
Where this site came from
A dashboard aesthetic, a stack of Obsidian notes, and the question of what a personal site is even for in 2026.
Matteson Machielse
written from the rack room
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.