Personal Portfolio — Explorable Project Map

I rebuilt my portfolio from the ground up. The old site was a dark neo-brutalist page running a Tailwind CDN script over a JSON grid; this one is a static Astro 5 build with React islands only where interaction demands them. The centrepiece is the work page — a map-style board where 36 projects sit in five territories, one per discipline. The wheel zooms at the cursor, dragging pans with momentum, two fingers pinch, and the filter chips fly the view to a category and dim the rest. Zoom in and pins resolve into cards. Every node is a real link, so each project also builds as its own static page that opens with its dialog already on screen. The home page is a sequence of scroll-driven sections: a pinned hero with a six-slide carousel, an about section whose paragraphs fill letter by letter while an image stack accumulates, a fisheye quick-facts reel, an accordion of skills, and a project reel whose track scrubs sideways as you scroll down — on phones as well as desktops. All content lives in one JSON file. There is no CMS, no database and no server runtime.