I consider myself a writer before a Software Developer.

Sashin Exists is my personal website where I publish my work which comprise of over fifty essays spanning philosophy, science, politics, meditation and more.

Originally, I build personal website for myself with that same domain back in 2013 in University. I would write thought pieces and post them on social media and share them with my friends.

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It was built with WordPress with a number of plugins and extensions and a custom theme which I built and appropriately called "Sashin Exists". It had a very similar colour scheme of black and green that the current site has, but different specific shades.

There were a lot of things I didn't like about WordPress including how clunky it was, the fact that it used the aging PHP and all the features it was bundled with that I honestly didn't care about. I wanted something cleaner and lighter, and I wanted building a theme to feel just like building a static site with HTML, CSS and Javascript.

In 2018, I quit my full time Data-Entry job realising that there was no joy in the work at all and decided to purse writing full-time rather than as a side-project.

The first steps I made after quitting was to rebuild my website using

. Ghost ticked all my boxes in being modern, fast and pleasant to develop themes for. Building a ghost theme feels the same as creating a static HTML+CSS+Javascript website, with all the flexibility that entails.

I hosted my new website using a

where I installed an instance of Ghost.