Why my portfolio boots like an operating system
A résumé is a list. An operating system is a place. I wanted the second one.
Most developer portfolios read the same way: a hero line, a grid of logos, a timeline, a contact form. They're correct. They're also forgettable, closed and gone in about fifteen seconds.
I wanted to build the other kind. So instead of a page, I made a place: a tiny, glassy operating system you boot into and poke around.
The bet
The bet is simple. A list tells you what I did. A place shows you how I think.
When you drag a window, swap the wallpaper, or stumble onto the terminal, you learn more about how I build than any bullet point was going to tell you. The medium is the message, and the message is "this person sweats the details."
Restraint is the hard part
Frutiger Aero is really easy to do badly. It's one bad decision away from gaudy. The whole challenge was keeping it calm: glass and gloss, sure, but in service of something quiet and premium instead of loud.
If it makes one other person want to go build a better personal site, then it did its job.