these are posts about my projects and are mostly writeups
rambles
My portfolio used to run on Framer Motion. Every hover effect, every entrance animation, every subtle transition was powered by a 50kb JavaScript library. It worked fine, but I kept thinking about performance. I kept wondering if CSS could do the same thing faster, cleaner, without the overhead. Turns out
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Gravatar is a service that creates unique avatar images from the hash of an email address. Inspired by this idea, I set out to build something similar for my developer portfolio. Rather than generating faces or icons, I wanted to create abstract art to use as cover images for my
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CSS columns are a convenient way to create masonry-style layouts, and for many simple use cases, they work fine. However, when I used them to build the project grid on my portfolio, I noticed a pattern that didn’t feel quite right. The layout filled from top to bottom before
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I reverse engineered the public QR verification flow from eVerify and reconstructed it as a personal project with the goal of providing a free and open verifier for both eGovPH and PSA IDs without relying on third-party vendors like Sumsub. I focused on mapping the public behavior from the source