Overview
This is the very site you're looking at. Built from scratch as a way to showcase work and experiment with the Vike SSR framework on top of a Hono server.
What I built
- A fully custom design system: warm paper background, ink-black type, and hard-shadow "sticker" UI
- SSR-first architecture. Pages are rendered on the server for fast initial loads
- Markdown-driven work section (you're reading one right now)
- Smooth page transitions and scroll-based reveal animations
Stack
- Frontend: Vue 3 + Vike for SSR
- Server: Hono running on Photon
- Database: SQLite via better-sqlite3
- Styling: Tailwind CSS v4 with a playful neubrutalist-lite theme
- Deployment: Vercel
Challenges
Getting Vike's prerender config to play nicely with dynamic data required some careful config scoping per-route. The markdown pipeline with gray-matter + marked turned out to be the cleanest solution for managing project content.
This site is open source. The markdown-driven work section means adding a new project is as simple as dropping a .md file in the work/ folder.
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