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One tiny step

March 9, 2026

Looking at inspirations for this portfolio-website and learning outcomes from completing 'typing effect' component

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Got the animation part done for my name aaand I'm not completely satisfied with it. It works... it's just sigh not as cool as I thought it'd be. But I did learn heaps about useEffect and how it interacts with timeouts/timers which is nice.

I also started working on putting in some links to things. So far I have put in links to my LinkedIn and GitHub, and I want to also have a 'get in contact', and a 'download resume'. But as of now things still look ass. Today I downloaded a package "SVGR" for displaying SVGs in react (as suggested by AI), however I got stuck on how to import it into my project and just gave up and uninstalled it. SIGH

I've also established my main inspirations as this dude Ted's website from the Anthony Sistilli Video and this cracked teen Jason Cameron's website. I love the idea of making things and learning but I get so impatient with myself for not knowing how to do certain things, for googling and/or using AI to tell me whats going on, and for -even after resorting to that- not being able to understand/ have something work. Ah such is coding.