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Wednesday, April 8, 2026building-the-site-thread

From create-next-app to live in one evening

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Built the entire site in a single evening — 12 commits between 5pm and midnight. Started with create-next-app, ended with a live portfolio on Vercel with Cloudflare DNS, dynamic OG images for social sharing, an ambient dot-matrix globe in the hero section, and the first Gemma 4 benchmark showcase self-hosted with interactive charts. The OG images went through three iterations — dynamic edge-rendered, then static PNGs, then back to dynamic with proper caching — because X kept showing blank cards. Added Cloudflare Web Analytics in the same session because I wanted real traffic data from day one, not retroactive instrumentation. Twelve commits, zero planning docs, one git push to production. The site existed in my head at 5pm and on the internet by midnight.

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