I was unbeliveably stupid back when I started.

This past few days, I decided that instead of going for new projects, maybe it was time for me to look at some old code of mine. Oh boy, how I regret that.

Back in 2020 I worked for a small company in my city as a web developer. At first, I was the only developer, so I did every step from planning to developing and managing, let's not forget I had just graduated from high school, and it was my very first job.

After I got laid off, in 2021, I decided to move on from programming since getting a new job in tech was (and still is) extremely difficult for me. Since then, I haven't touched VS Code until this year, when I went back to college and decided to get back to programming.

I thought it would be a great idea to redo the projects I did for that company, but I think I'll have nightmares for a while now. I know I'm no front-end developer and never claimed or wanted to be one, but this. This is horrendous.

Notice how the scrollbar still goes down? Yeah, I have no idea why, but I'm pretty sure it worked in the company's monitor. You think this is bad? Check the register page:

The logo is on top, but I had to crop it for you to see this monstrosity. Why the hell is it so narrow? We'll never know. I don't want to know, at least it still works.

I did get to refactor the back-end to upgrade from Laravel 8 to 11, and it works as expected, which is a win for me.

Even though I know I'm not a full-stack developer, I still feel the cringe from such bad design because this is what recruiters see first on a portfolio, right? Not only that, but I mean, how can I build a portfolio if it's gonna be this ugly?

I did look into some tools that could help me and for now my best option is to wait on Amigoscode Portfolly. Seems to be a great way to showcase my work directly from my repos instead of building it from scratch. If you have any tips for portfolio building, I would love to hear it.

As for new projects, I think I'm gonna stick to good old Bootstrap snippets and keep doing what I know: how to make it work.