My Personal Webpage

This webpage was created partially out of necessity and partially out of fun. I had seen enough job applications asking for personal webpages, so I decided to give the HR people what they wanted. I learned enough from my web development course in third year to feel confident in doing this. I also wanted to give myself something to do over winter break. Normally I bake to pass the time, but this alternate act of creative expression and creation scratched many itches.

Thus I invite you visiter, to behold: my portfolio. A little piece of my soul to the world. Please enjoy.

Design Ethos

I strived to accomplish two things with this webpage:

• Be an expression of myself as a person
• Act as a portfolio of my tech-related experiences

It is intentional that the goal of self-expression comes first. I am someone who likes writing and reading long passages of prose describing why things are the way they are. I love to read creative insights for various things, such as the art books for my favorite video games. For a more technical example, this article describing an outage incident at Datadog and explaining how it happened as well as what design choices could've been better made to avoid it is one of my favorite reads.

So as you may have noticed, this webpage will be much more wordy than any of my peers'. That is how I chose to put it together. But I still hope to have put all the important bits regarding my skills as a computer science student where they can be easily found, unincumbered by my exuberant wordiness.

How It Came Together

This webpage is made with HTML, CSS, and Javascript. All pictures are mine, and the favicon was created by me at https://www.favicon.cc/. Hosting is done on https://render.com/

I actually spent a lot of time looking at webpages of my peers and professors to see how their webpages were laid out and organized. I eventualy settled on a clean, minimalist white theme. To add some personality though, I used a shot of the Toronto skyline as the navbar background. I think this is the most readable webpages I can achieve without it having the aesthetics of a blank coloring page.

Why The Banana Tree Favicon?

A tree was the object I had most confidence to draw recognizably in pixel art. The banana was literally a six-pixel afterthought to spice up the tree. I just think bananas are a very whimsical fruit.