BnaJns Portfolio

Light work before the hard part. Added a very cool (and comedical) 404 page with randomized messages and anchors back to homepage/previous browser page, instead of the default next.js 404 page. Fixed a issue with the favicons, I forgot to remove the old favicon so there was a conflict, and added placeholder pages for the pages I plan to make. Anyways, the next plan is to get started with making the admin page where I can manage the blog, projects (probably not since I'll just automate it with github), and the services listed in the service statuses page. I'm probably going to hate this part a lot since databases and yadayada suck to work with sometimes in my opinion but it's probably gonna be worth it long term rather than having a static page and editing it every time I add something new.

More than basic progress update. I started off by adding a navbar because I of course plan to have more than 1 page, so for now I just added links to the projects, blog, and service statuses pages (which are nonexistent right now), I also added the readmefm embed to display my current/last played song, didn't make it for no reason of course so gotta put it to use, added a basic footer (which has a 50/50 all (rights/lefts) reserved thingy), modified metadata to have the correct title/description instead of the default one, and added a favicon. Main page is pretty much done I guess, next steps are of course to make a working blog (and probably an admin page as well), a projects page which pulls my owned repos from github, and a service statuses page which just gets the status of my hosted projects (might add uptime tracking as well). Also gonna have to make a custom 404 page, because why not. Pretty much all for now.

Basic progress so far, got the initial layout/styling/page pretty much set out, and added some basic info. Added a 3/4 hero banner, an about me section, interests, some of my pinned projects, and contact links. Still some work left though since I don't want the site to be too bland, things such as the favicon, adding more personality, gonna make another page that fetches all my recent github repos, etc. Looking good though so far imo.

Finally decided to get started on making a personal site/portfolio after procrastinating for like 100 years, anyways I decided to use next.js and tailwindcss for this since I have the most experience with these, provides flexibility compared to php/express/etc, and it's simple to use and host. The only plans I have right now on what I could add are obviously my best projects, links to my profiles, probably gonna include contact info, and I'll see what else I'm going to add along the way.