The previous version of this site was, charitably, a crime scene. It was a scraped copy of a Framer site held together by a runtime script that monkey-patched the browser’s networking to remap CDN URLs — and faked a 2G connection to force low-quality assets. The homepage alone was nearly a megabyte of HTML before a single image loaded.
So it became the perfect first project for the way I build now: tear it down to zero and rebuild it properly.
How it’s made
Every page is pre-rendered to plain HTML at build time and served from Cloudflare’s edge — there’s no framework runtime shipped to your browser at all. The interactive moments (the terminal, the kinetic headline, the photo desk) are small pieces of hand-written JavaScript that load only where they’re used.
The fancy bits cost almost nothing: the scroll-driven animations run on the browser’s compositor, fonts are self-hosted, and images are optimized into modern formats at build time.
Also, it’s watching you
Not really — there’s no tracking here beyond privacy-respecting, cookie-free analytics. But there is a small dial in the corner, counting something. People who get curious enough tend to find out what.
