Active · October 2026 – present
Portfolio v2
The site you're reading. I rebuilt my portfolio with Next.js and plain CSS, aiming for simplicity.
Overview
This is the second version of my personal website. My goal was simplicity: put my experience and projects first and keep everything else out of the way.
The first version had a starfield and a skills constellation. This one has less going on, so the writing is easier to read.
The fish in the hero is there because I started getting into fishing around the time I built it.
Goals
The rebuild needed to:
- Keep the design simple.
- Put experience and projects first.
- Keep the dependency list short.
How I built it
The site uses Next.js 15 with the App Router, React 19 and TypeScript. Styling is plain CSS with CSS Modules, so there is no styling library to maintain.
I kept the runtime dependencies to seven, so there is little to keep updated.
The site is hosted on Vercel. When I push to GitHub, Vercel builds and deploys it on its own.
What I learned
Keeping things small helps. With seven runtime dependencies and plain CSS, there is very little to maintain.