Website update, November 2025

This year, particularly in the latter half, I've really gotten into developing and experimenting on this website. I'm now in the habit of releasing substantial updates on a roughly monthly basis. Let me briefly describe some of the changes I've introduced.

Frontend

I'm always looking to improve the look and feel of the site. This time, I've revamped card elements, making them slightly more uniform and also giving them more room to breathe, particularly on larger screen sizes.

To advance the goal of a more responsive interface, I've started integrating htmx, a lightweight JavaScript library that triggers HTTP requests from DOM elements and swaps out the contents of an element with HTTP response data, giving you that single-page application or "React-like" feel. 

This is precisely the functionality that my mentor and I, while teamed up professionally, were implementing using jQuery. I would recommend doing it the htmx way!

Mobile users rejoice

More steps have been taken towards investigating and intercepting elements that were broken or behaving unexpectedly on smartphone-sized screens. This is part of a larger, ongoing initiative, and so there still may be kinks to iron out (I suspect the view for tablet-sized screens may not be as stable as it is for desktops or smartphones).

Administrative tasks

The Portfolio project is now explicitly licensed under the GPL v3, a copyleft license, meaning anyone may use, contribute to, or fork this project, but in doing so you may only redistribute the work in a free and open source manner.

Furthermore, versions of the project will now be denominated using a standardized calendar-style version. This current update, for example, is known as version 2025.11, whereas minor updates within the same month would be labeled according to the format yyyy.mm.dd, where the day is some arbitrary day related to the timeline of development for that minor update.

Sponsors

The shiniest new feature is the sponsorship system. If you would please direct your attention to the Sponsors page, you will find the list of financial contributions received in the past 30 days.

A contribution of any amount will get your name etched into this wall for the aforementioned duration. Currently, only contributions $5.00 or greater are eligible to have a custom message displayed.

If any of my work seems interesting and you would like to foster its continuation, please consider becoming a sponsor!