Welcome to yet another iteration of my website.

I built the first version of my portfolio, even before I owned this domain, shortly after my first web programming class during my undergrad, using plain HTML, CSS, and JS.

first version of vaibhav's website
portfolio v1

After about a year, I built the second version—a single-page ThreeJS application with a cool 3D render (GLTF) of a PC setup. This is, by far, the flashiest project I’ve ever worked on. I learned so much when I was working on it, like the fact that I do not enjoy working with 3D files.

second version of vaibhav's website
portfolio v2

Like clockwork, I got bored after a year and built a new one overnight that was much simpler using ReactJS. This time, it even had a blog section—but I never published anything, so did it really have a blog section?

It was a really shitty website, probably the worst one of the three so far. But the homepage was a clean bento-grid layout, so I let it hang around for a while, thinking I’d fix all its flaws during Christmas.

third version of vaibhav's website
portfolio v3

I tried about four or five variations of this new site, even building them using different frameworks. My use case was pretty simple: I needed a blog site to yap, with a place for people to leave comments if they wish to do so and to post the photos I’ve taken.

At last, I have settled on an extremely simple yet elegant solution: Jekyll + GitHub pages. This site is almost entirely markdown-based, and dare I say, i fw it heavy. I really like how clean and simple it looks. I intend to use this space to write about projects I’m working on and also to talk about anything and everything I find interesting.

Here’s the link to my RSS feed

See you around!



PS: thanks to everyone who continues to make cool shit, and thanks to the people who’ve inspired me to build this site: den, neal, nolen, tru, jan, manuel, ezri, melody, and many, many more.

PPS: cute cat that follows the cursor: github.com/adryd325/oneko.js