Plans for this site
Like most full-time employed web developers, my personal site always seems to come last. It was the same when I was a car audio installer, my car was always the worst looking install (though I did make it sound good!).
Initially, I'll work on the responsive side of things, as I know this isn't mobile friendly yet. Then, I'll probably only get the Resume/CV page built, because I plan to use this as a bit of a portfolio in and of itself. Eventually, I'll add a blog, a portfolio, a contact page, my car history, and the pretty crazy story of my finding my biological family.
How It's Made ©
Coming Soon(ish) (click to expand)
After using Vue 3 and Nuxt 4 at my new job at TFS, I have absolutely fallen in love with the way things are done in Nuxt. If you want auto-imports, you can have them. If you want to use a bunch of plugins, you can do that. But you don't have to. So, I'll be rebuilding this site in Nuxt 4 (probably with Tailwind so I can get to know it better...) in the very near future.
I used a bunch of modern technology (as of late 2021, updating in mid 2026) to build this site. NOTE: Absolutely no AI tools were used on this specific site, but I have become a fan of Claude Code and use in my daily development now. Here goes:
- Next.js - a React based application platform that is absolutely KILLER for building websites and apps.
- TypeScript - I used to hate it. Now I don't know how to ever go back to plain JavaScript again!
- Panda CSS - From the creators of Chakra UI (see below), this is a utility-first CSS framework that is super easy to use and has a lot of great features. And as a huge benefit since I love Chakra, it uses a very similar syntax, but it all done via PostCSS, so it doesn't require a JS runtime. Pretty freaking cool if you ask me.
- Chakra UI - a library for building UI components with a focus on accessibility and performance.
Some thoughts about UI Libraries (click to expand)
I've been going through
Josh W. Comeau's absolutely phenomenal CSS for JS Devs course and while I love it, I kinda disagree that you shouldn't use a base UI component library. I understand his points about not using something like MUI or Bootstrap, but Chakra-UI is so unopinionated (and it makes it SO easy to implement CSS as props) that I'm gonna argue with him. Either way, huge props (see what I did there?) to Josh for an outstanding course!
- Vercel - I figure if they're good enough to create Next.js, they're good enough to be the main host for Next.js apps.
