Devlog 2

Getting the About section written took longer than I expected. Because it’s surprisingly difficult to write about yourself without sounding like you’re trying to impress someone. I rewrote the same paragraphs more times than I’d like to admit, slowly replacing things that sounded good with things that actually felt like me. The Projects section had a different problem. Turns out writing code is easier than writing about the code you’ve already written. Summarizing months of work into a few sentences, choosing screenshots, deciding what to leave out and figuring out what someone would actually find interesting is its own little design challenge. The biggest change, though, ended up being the handwritten notes

At first, the page looked like every other portfolio I’d seen. Project title, description, repository link, repeat. It worked but it didn’t feel like my notebook. The little margin notes, project statuses and honest comments about what went well (or didn’t) gave each project a bit of personality. Ironically, those tiny annotations took longer to write than some of the summaries. Maybe building a portfolio isn’t really about showing everything you’ve made