Feb 11, 2026

BUILDING THIS SITE: A TERMINAL-AESTHETIC PORTFOLIO

How I built my personal portfolio with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and a dark terminal aesthetic inspired by Geist Pixel.

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Why This Site

I needed a central place to document my projects, share progress updates, and serve as a digital CV for recruitment. Rather than using a template, I built this from scratch with a terminal aesthetic that reflects how I actually work — in the terminal, writing code.

Design Decisions

The design is inspired by Vercel's Geist Pixel font and classic CRT terminal aesthetics:

Monospace everything — Geist Mono as the single typeface
Dark + green — The classic terminal color scheme
CRT scanlines — Subtle CSS overlay for that retro monitor feel
ASCII art — Figlet-rendered name as the hero element
Minimal UI — No component libraries, just Tailwind utilities

Tech Stack

Next.js 15 with App Router for static generation
Velite for type-safe MDX content management
Tailwind CSS v4 for styling
Vercel for deployment

What's Next

I'll be posting regular updates on my projects here — quantitative trading system progress, ESG agent improvements, and new experiments in ML and AI.