On the Creation of This Site#

05-04-2025

This dude finally got a personal website - cll, probably

Welcome! Hopefully you've had a good time so far. With few days remaining until the new summer semester (2A), I decided it was time to finally give myself some digial presence (and as a way to procrastinate on revamping my resume), and so here you go! Brand new personal website for the world.

This site is built with React + Tailwind CSS (10/10, I have been converted), which finally put that React course I bought 2 years ago to good use. Unfortunately, the reality is that I did a pretty crappy job, and those of you who are keen (and bored enough to actually look at my code) may realize the issue:

• my component layout makes absolutely no sense in retrospect, and
• I used only React, so all these posts are also rendered client-side.

The first point refers to the spotlight effect. Secondly, all the markdown files thus have to be public assets and sent over upon any request, which isn't that big of a problem unless I write a bjillion writing entries (or unless somehow this site becomes popular), but also just makes me feel like a crappy dev. Probably should have done a bit more research before I started 😋.

Design inspiration goes to Billy Tseng, Wilbur Zhang, Ching Lam Lau, and Ivan Yu. Believe it or not, I actually thought of the spotlight idea separated from Hack the North 2025 teaser, but it's too similar for me to claim otherwise. The color theme doesn't help either.

Now, the question to be answered: when am I going to fix these issues?

Your guess is as good as mine.