i’ve been meaning to build a personal side of me on the internet. my main portfolio looks a bit too corporatey as it should (having made it entirely for placements purposes). this one’s gonna be wayy different than that hopefully lol.
the foremost reason for doing this is there’s so much ai slop now, i barely feel a real connection with anything i read. and with google search going ai, i feel like this is only gonna increase. i have zero idea about where this is gonna go, or if this is gonna fly at all but i really wanna have a space to write when i feel like it. not just to do my part agaiasnt ai but really just to feel human again, to think of that one word that would make complete sense to a sentence.
for now, there’s this posts thingy and then there’s a project and experiments. idk if they make sense now but most of its gonna be overlapping anyway. les see how this goes!
typography choices
i’m very new to this and after doing the little reading that i did i went with Source Serif 4 for body text. Serif fonts have better readability for long-form content — there’s a reason books still use them. JetBrains Mono handles code and metadata, providing clear visual separation between prose and technical bits.
what I skipped while making this
- any heavy frameworks like react or nextjs
- tailwind (vanilla CSS is fine for ~200 lines)
- analytics (i really don’t wanna know)
The result is a site that loads in under a second and feels like this.