richard
kern.

Hi, I’m Richard. This is where I keep things: projects, notes to myself, and whatever’s caught my attention lately. Some of it’s polished, most of it isn’t. Have a poke around.

Writing

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17.07Why I relearned to codeN°04
16.07Maintenance is the part nobody photographsN°03
11.07Learning which signals to push through

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Selected work

richard@richardkern.nz

richardkern.nz

2026

The site you are reading, and the first project in its own portfolio: a personal blog and folio built on the same Next.js and Payload stack as my client work, self-hosted and open source.

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