This started as a school web dev assessment and passion project I’ve been meaning to do for a while, but quickly grew way past that. I built a full portfolio site with a Catppuccin based light/dark theme, Home/About/Blog/Projects/Contact pages, and a system that auto-generates cards for blog posts and projects from JSON data.
Along the way I fixed a bunch of bugs, such as my broken image fallback logic (was checking .ok on
an unresolved fetch Promise), an undiscoverable native multi-select filter (replaced with
clickable pill buttons), a missing closing that broke my page layout, and hardcoded NZ
date formatting. The part I’m proudest of is three live data widgets. They’re a GitHub commit tracker, a GitHub
contribution graph matching my profile heatmap, and a Hackatime coding time dashboard. All
three needed lots of debugging.
I finished by adding responsive breakpoints, since none of my layouts adapted to mobile at all.
Most of this project was debugging, not writing new code, which taught me more than the actual
building did.