Create a personal website or portfolio.

“I've re-built and revamped my personal website so many times (roughly once a year) that it brings me a lot of pleasure to see myself satisfied with this current iteration. [...] My first attempt at a website was using a professional Bootstrap template and static hosting. I liked it, but I was a useless high school student, so I thought the professional get-up was overkill. The second iteration of my site in high school was written in Express and Angular (back when it was cool) since I thought of them synonymously with web development. [...] This didn't work out due to technical debt (and I didn't know how to deploy things).”

“I recently decided to rebuild my personal website from scratch using the latest and greatest in Frontend development. I hadn't made any significant updates to my previous website since I built it in 2016. I felt like I had outgrown it and decided to try something new. I also wanted to consolidate my portfolio website with my blog. When I was still young and starry-eyed I built the website and the blog separately and had them deployed on different platforms. Now that I had been tried by the world and knew a little better, I decided to build and deploy both of them as the same application.”

“I initially started out the design by listing out the things I wanted as part of my decision process. Then I sketched a first draft of what I wanted the homepage to look like on desktop and mobile. [...] I didn't design all of the inner pages in Sketch, as I felt that I would move faster simply converting the designs in my head directly to HTML. I often do this. Not sure it's the best approach but it works for me. I find that I start obsessing over small details if I design every single page I need to create in Sketch.”