Personal Site
A personal site with a working Windows 95 desktop and straightforward public routes.
- Role
- Designer and developer
- Status
- Maintained
- Technologies
- Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Playwright
You are looking at the live site. Its source is public on GitHub.
The Windows 95 interface is optional; the same core content remains available through conventional public routes.
Typed content
- Public routesWork, experience, photography, contact
- Optional /desktopLegacy query + hash links
Why this site exists
A normal grid of portfolio cards did not feel like me, so I built a working Windows 95 desktop.
The site gives people evaluating my work a direct way to read about my experience, projects, photography, and contact details.
Design and routing
- The site uses the Next.js App Router, typed content, and Playwright regression tests.
- The public pages use stable routes while the desktop keeps old query and hash links working.
- The Windows 95 version needs to behave like a desktop on large and small screens.
- Important destinations need stable URLs without breaking old query and hash links.
Keeping the desktop optional
- The desktop is deliberately unusual, so the main site also needs plain document routes that are easy to navigate and read.
- Maintaining old links adds routing work, but avoids turning a redesign into a set of broken bookmarks.
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