it’s been a hot minute since the last log. i went home for the holidays and fully unplugged — didn’t touch the repo for like 1 week, so the portfolio just sat there gathering dust. anyway i’m back and i actually shipped a good chunk, so let me catch up.

manifesto: a quiet moment on the site, no webgpu, just four lines of text. i split them with SplitText and clip a gray→ink gradient to the glyphs, then scroll slides the background so the dark ink fills each line in from the left. once they’re all dark the whole section fades to ink and the text flips to cream — it inverts into the footer palette right before it unpins. annoying bug: the pin adds 300% scroll and the footer triggers (created earlier) fired too early, so i sort into document order and refresh after the split.

footer: classic big mailto headline with a hover underline wipe, socials, and a bottom bar. everything reveals on one timeline when it scrolls in. back-to-top routes through lenis for a smooth scroll with an instant fallback.

footer image: the starry-night img has a tiny webgpu canvas on top that copies its object-cover crop, so mousing over it warps the pixels with a little chromatic aberration. the distortion is a cpu grid (base 15, capped 128) — splat pointer velocity into nearby cells, relax back to zero each frame, write it into an 8-bit RG DataTexture the shader samples. and it’s lazy: an IntersectionObserver only mounts the canvas near the viewport, frameloop off when it’s not on screen, plain  as the fallback. costs nothing till you scroll to it.