Portfolio Website (2018-2025)

I built this portfolio website utilizing the Flask Web Framework, Pure CSS Library. I used to maintain and run this website on a DigitalOcean VPS running Ubuntu Server 20.04. I recently deployed this website on DigitalOcean's Apps Platform.

The website uses lightweight vanilla JavaScript with the native Fetch API for making HTTP requests. On the homepage, I use this to consume DuckDuckGo's API to pull definitions for each of the skill buttons. Feel free to try it out!

The first version of this website used Twitter Bootstrap; however, I found that using Pure CSS framework with the inclusion of custom CSS/JS to be much lighter weight while achieving the same goal.

Some other features that I implemented (on the VPS deployment)

• Brotli HTTP compression enabled, gzip enabled as a fallback
• Minified CSS and JS
• Improved SEO - Optimized for mobile, relevant descriptions and title tags set, uses heading tags, preferred domain set, sitemap linked to Google and Bing Webmaster tools, forces HTTPS, canonicalized IP address, and page sizes kept small.
• Redirect - redirects users to my portfolio site from some old school projects that were already indexed by Google.
• Supports SSL/HTTPS
• Supports HTTP2
• Supports IPv6 and IPv4