What is this?
My website. My old one is available to see here.
I wanted to have something I was actually proud of and didn’t take me 5 minutes to make during a French class in high school because I discovered Bootstrap Studio was an easy way to prototype a minimalist website.
How do I view this project?
It’s live. You’re using it right now.
What tech was/is used?
Astro, TypeScript, SCSS, and Tailwind. The last one has got to go though, and will be gradually phased out. I find it useful for prototyping, but don’t like having a lot of classes around, especially as I don’t exactly know how each works. Also, it sometimes messed with my SCSS module files.
All the blog posts, the project posts, the /about page, and most of the pages on /more use markdown.
The bubble animation appearing when the page is clicked uses the Mo.js library.
Project structure
- Astro project/
- public/
- images/
- fonts/
- src/
- assets/
- images that can't be loaded in via /public (idk why)/
- components/
- pages/
- styles/
- layouts/
- utils/
Entries as the site progressed (dates are in MM/DD/YYYY format)
04/18/2023 - v1.11.3
Many small updates. There are now some easter eggs for visitors to discover. Some are permanent, others random.
07/05/2023 - v1.10.6
Many small updates, including lots of little experiments.
Now includes a Work section.
05/03/2023 - v1.10
I do not know what I was doing last update. It was super ugly. This is the biggest visual update and improvement by far, with gradient backgrounds, a whole new suite of colors, and more pop to everything!
The underlying structure is mostly the same.
This update also introduces the web experiments section, located in /more.
04/26/2023 - v1.9
New color scheme, new background, and less complicated code! Biggest visual update to date!
01/27/2023 - v1.8
Upgraded to Astro 2.0. I now use the content folder to host the blog, project and random posts. I therefore have to use [..slug].astro which is alright?
Also, a whiile back images have been changed to use .webp instead of .jpg or .png.
12/09/2022
I added the bubbly click animation with Mo.js. It’s fun! I’m experimenting with page load animations now.
11/17/2022
My roommate told me he was disappointed in my website today. After realizing he meant the landing page, I agreed. It’s time to redo it.
I’ll try to make it look more modern without the typical start-up feel, and maybe add light/dark mode.
11/09/2022
Wow turns out I was dumb and Vercel was lenient.
For ~18 hours this website 404’d. I couldn’t figure out why. Redeployed over 20 times trying out new things. Turns out a path was set wrong and a commit triggered Vercel to realize it? I’m not sure. Here is the link to the issue.
10/22/2022
So far, I hate styling so much. Thank you so so so so much for SCSS.
Alright. V1 of this website is done! Finally! It has been a bumpier ride than I expected, with a very annoying bug (actually a JS compilation uncertainty that therefore isn’t allowed by vite) at the end. But woo! It’s finally done!