Career and site updates over time.
Matchbot now has a case-study scaffold with sections for context, constraints, approach, trade-offs, outcome, and retrospective.
It remains marked as work in progress until real project specifics, visuals, and results are added.
The site now has two pattern pages with live React demos: debounced search with cancellation and optimistic UI with rollback.
This is the first step toward making the portfolio feel like docs you can run, not just a list of projects.
The content system is live: MDX files render through typed frontmatter, custom components, Shiki-powered code blocks, and collection-based routes.
This gives the site a real writing surface for engineering notes, projects, patterns, and changelog entries.
The portfolio moved from a single homepage toward a documentation-style site with real routes for notes, patterns, projects, changelog, about, contact, photography, and biking.
The foundation also includes theming, metadata, analytics, and command palette plumbing.
Photography became part of the portfolio instead of living as a separate hobby surface.
The grid gives the site a more personal rhythm and keeps the portfolio from feeling like a purely technical brochure.
The first version of the site established the central idea: present the portfolio as documentation for a human engineer.
Instead of treating the shadcn look as just a visual style, the goal became to make the structure feel like documentation too: notes, patterns, projects, and a changelog.