Announcing my portfolio site!

rizz0s

Summer Rizzo

Posted on April 8, 2020

Announcing my portfolio site!

UPDATE: She's mobile-friendly now, folks! :)

Hello everyone!

I am at the beginning of my job search, which inspired the need for a portfolio website. As I've been learning web development, I've always day-dreamed about what my portfolio may look like and have been eager to make it throughout my process.

You can visit it live here.

A few weeks back I had the idea to make the layout inspired by the Fibonacci spiral. It is both an ode to both my first love of photography and my current love of programming. I first learned of the "golden ratio" while studying composition in photography, and writing a program to compute the Fibonacci sequence was coincidentally one of the first exercises I did when I first began coding.

Building this website was a wonderful learning experience. For the first time, I:

  • built a React toolchain from scratch (and in turn wrote my own Webpack config)
  • used a CSS Grid layout
  • used CSS Modules
  • created an SVG animation
  • used a transition library
  • used relative units for font, image, and icon sizes
  • made a set of custom icons
  • deployed via Travis CI

... and it feels really good! I am so proud to have something out there that feels like it comes purely from me.

The next step is making it mobile-friendly, which I will also be doing for the first time. [see update]

And, of course, I am open to suggestions if you notice anything awry.

Wish me luck! With <3, happy coding!

💖 💪 🙅 🚩
rizz0s
Summer Rizzo

Posted on April 8, 2020

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