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Sole Developer

A minimalist developer portfolio and blog, built with Hugo. Focused on performance, semantic markup, and long-term maintainability.

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About

This site is my personal portfolio and blog where I intend to document my work, share writing, and signal a transition from fullstack web development toward systems and backend engineering.

It’s built with Hugo, chosen for its speed, simplicity, and flexibility in templating and styling. The design is intentionally minimal: monospace type, a dark palette, and no JavaScript.

On AI-assisted development

Parts of this site were built with meaningful help from Claude. I used it throughout the process: from getting started with Hugo templating; ensuring a clean, minimal, and maintainable SCSS architecture; to accessibility auditing. I want to be upfront about that rather than obscure it.

I’m also treating this as an opportunity to think carefully about what AI-assisted development actually looks like in practice–where it helps, where it falls short, and what it means for ownership of the work. I’ll be writing more about this in a forthcoming post.

Design decisions

  • Monospace type where allowable (IBM Plex Mono) as a deliberate craft signal
  • Dark background with a gold accent, tuned to meet WCAG 2.0 AA contrast
  • No client-side JavaScript (where possible) (prefer static HTML and CSS)
  • Page bundles for content to keep assets colocated with their source files