Portfolio

I decided to rebuild my portfolio again because my coding style has changed drastically as well as the design style that I am leaning towards right now. I made something a little more my own with the technologies that I enjoy using. If you're looking at the tech stack above and thinking to yourself "This thing is a little over-engineered for what it is," well then, you would be correct! However, that is kind of the point.

For the past couple of years I have become overwhelmingly comfortable using React and specifically Next.js to build new projects. It allows me to keep the stack uniform, and does not stray to far from the beaten path that I know during the hiring process we would be able to easily and quickly find confident developers who were able to jump in and feel comfortable on day one. That and I figured I would build something that is my own in the stack that I enjoy the most. I have a little database set up for when people contact me just to showcase that I am capable of creating and using needed api routes, I used tailwind because it has become the defacto standard while retaining most of the features found in CSS, but I do fall back to CSS when I need to build something that requires a little bit more complicated (the image carousel), I use resend to immediately send a thank you email to those who reach out to me, and I use the niceties provided by Next.js and the team over at vercel to deliver a robust and extremely fast experience.

While I know that there is not always a need for a framework and while some of my developer peers would also argue that there are better frameworks for any given purpose when building out a tech stack I find it incredibly important to remain uniform. It makes bringing on members much easier and makes creating documentation a much less painful experience. Whatever you choose for your projects just make sure that you enjoy it! Personally, I think there is great value in learning as much as possible, but it can be just as powerful to learn one thing as best as you possibly can before moving on to the next.