devlog — cleaned up the site today

• removed three.js and replaced it with a lightweight pure css dot-grid.
• warmed up the whole color palette and gave it more of an aged parchment feel.
• fixed the landing page alignment by switching to a strict css grid and keeping everything dead-center.
• added ibm plex mono locally, so there are no external font requests anymore.
• added my hardware + software toolkit to the about page.
• added a vanilla javascript observer for smooth fade-ins when elements enter the viewport.

overall, the build feels way lighter, faster, and cleaner now.

and yeah, the alignment is finally actually right.

I built a minimalist portfolio from the ground up, focusing entirely on strict layout control and a raw “hacker-document” aesthetic. I originally had a 3D particle system running in the background, but I ended up removing Three.js completely and replaced it with a much lighter, pure CSS dot-grid that uses a custom mouse-tracking spotlight mask to keep the load times near zero.The core of the build involved creating a precise CSS state-machine for a sticky-scroll landing sequence and using CSS Grid to achieve pixel-perfect absolute centering across the viewport. For typography, I used Google Fonts with IBM Plex Mono instead of adding the font directly into the stylesheet. Everything is tied together with a warm, vintage parchment color palette, strict flex-aligned project cards, and smooth hover-state GitHub reveals.It’s completely self-contained, lightweight, lightning fast, and matches exactly the aesthetic I was going for.