Personal Site · hayden.science

Hayden Stegall,in public.

A personal home for the things I'm learning, reading, thinking about, and measuring over time. Warm, colorful, open — and unmistakably mine.

PhD · de novo protein design Mode · always growing Vibe · warm & human
Hayden Stegall
hayden.science
1The Premise

A place for long arcs — not a beige template.

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Built to grow

The site is intentionally easy to edit, so it can grow without a redesign every time life changes. Research output, books, films, essays, ideas — whatever is worth keeping in the open.

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Unmistakably personal

Strong color, soft texture, and roomy typography over muted template minimalism. A clear identity now, with space for projects and milestones to get more detailed over time.

The thing it's not

A muted, interchangeable template you forget the second you close the tab. This site picks warmth, color, and a human voice instead. The reframe: a personal site shouldn't look like everyone else's — it should feel like a person.

2What's Inside
hayden.science
⚛ hayden.science

Science, curiosity, and a human internet.

A home for research output, life metrics, books, films, essays, ideas — and whatever else feels worth keeping in the open. Meant to feel alive, not like a template.

Explore the stats → Read about me
About · Stats · Projects · Long arcs.
3How It Should Feel

Warm, personal, and a little loud.

✓ Sounds like this site

  • Warm, colorful, open. Talks to you, like a person.
  • Alive over time: "long arcs — things measured, not just posted."
  • Strong color, soft texture, roomy type. Identity you remember.
  • Low-friction and durable: plain Markdown, easy to edit.

✗ Not this site

  • Muted template minimalism you forget instantly.
  • Corporate-portfolio voice: "Leveraging synergies."
  • Locked-down CMS that needs a redesign to change.
  • A wall of links with no point of view.
4What It Keeps in the Open

Three things, one job: stay honest over time.

Stats
Numbers, kept honesth-index · chess · books · movies
live ↗
Public stats. Citations and chess rating sync themselves once a day; books and movies are tracked over the year — plus the last things I read and watched.
Projects
Code · stories · real lifeeach one its own themed module
Things I've made. Research pipelines, short fiction, and work out in the world — every project rendered from a plain Markdown file.
About
The longer storyhow I got from UT to Rice
Who's behind it. A PhD student designing proteins that never existed — plus bouldering, badminton, and very slow blindfold chess.
5The Logbook + The Notebook

The receipt is the proof. The notebook is the voice.

HAYDEN.SCIENCE
★ THE LOGBOOK ★
H-INDEXlive sync
CHESS ELOlive sync
BOOKSlogged
MOVIESlogged
LAST READon display
METRICS KEPT5
HISTORYfile-backed
kept in the open, over time
⚛ hayden

Notes to self

The handful of lines this whole site is built around.

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the point
Keep the long arc in the open.
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site mood
"warm, personal, and a little loud"
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the goal
Not a template. It should feel like a person.
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what it's for
Research, reading, chess, and real life.
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how it's built
Built to change · quietly self-maintaining