Side Quests / Quest V

05 waypoints

In progress

Rebuilt my website

Rebuilt my website, the live site
Type
Website
Status
In progress
My part
Idea, design and build
Logged
Sep 25, 2026

Waypoint 01 / 05

Why

My old site didn't feel like me anymore. It was a snapshot of a different time, and I've been making a lot more than that since.

Most of what I make doesn't fit anywhere. It's not client work, it's not a band thing, it's just stuff I got curious about and couldn't leave alone. It needed somewhere to live.

Waypoint 02 / 05

The inside of my head

A normal portfolio is a grid of finished things. That's not how any of this happens for me. Music turns into an app idea, an app turns into a game, a game sends me down a hole about physics. Everything I get into leaks into everything else.

So instead of a grid, the home page is a trip through the inside of my head. You start at an eye, go through it, and keep falling.

The second stop on the home page: a body dissolving into a galaxy, next to the line 'Everything I get into ends up in something I make.'
Fig. 1Through the eye, inside my head

Waypoint 03 / 05

The route

An eye staring back at you. Through the pupil, into a body coming apart into stars. Down a well of staircases that don't end, with every side quest hanging on the wall as an engraved plate. A split sphere that pulls itself back together. A door of light on black water. Then a summit, under an eclipse.

The summit is my favorite part. The planets circling the eclipse are the same ones you look down on at the very start. By the end you're standing under them, looking up. Same sky, different place to stand. There's always another staircase.

The last stop on the home page: a figure on a summit looking up at an eclipse circled by planets
Fig. 2The summit, looking back up

Waypoint 04 / 05

How it works

Everything is drawn in code to look like an old star atlas: thin engraved lines, halftone dots, a lot of violet. It's built with Next.js and Three.js, and it lives on Vercel.

I wanted to update it from my phone in about two minutes. Every side quest is one file. Drop in some screenshots and a link, and the plate shows up in the well. The Now page shows the last time I touched it, so if it gets old, you'll know.

A side quest page: the title, a link to the live site and a framed screenshot labeled Live feed
Fig. 3Every side quest gets a log like this one
The home page on a phone, the eye over the words It me.
Fig. 4Same trip on a phone

Waypoint 05 / 05

Where it's at

I already changed the design twice. It'll probably change again.

Next up is more side quests. A few are already waiting in the wings. Someday maybe streams, a members club and some merch. For now, poke around. If something here makes you want to make something, that's the whole point.

Quest V logged