Building a Handyman Site That Doesn't Look Like Every Other Handyman Site
A straightforward look at building LvlUp Handyman's website—distinct visual identity, interactive service search, and why intentional design choices…
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Building a Book Launch Site That Actually Respects Its Users
How we achieved 99/100/100/100 Lighthouse scores (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO) while building a bilingual, dark-mode-enabled book…
Why I Spent 18 Hours on a 'Simple' Translation Project
The Chorotega Hotel needed their website in Spanish. I could have used a plugin and been done in an afternoon.…
Building the New Vector Site: A Look Under the Hood
A personal walkthrough of the tech stack, design choices, and development process behind the new Vector website, built with Astro, React, Tailwind,…