Aside from the design and UX: please hire a copywriter or editor - there's a lot going on here in the text in terms of misspellings, grammatical errors, run on sentences, etc. I think it's all very "pretty" but hurts to actually read.

So, just as no-code platforms are slowly replacing traditional developments, especially in web development

I just don't think this is true on any scale - certainly for folks looking to push portfolios or whatever, it works, but (for example) a neighborhood website that needs to integrate a CRM or a restaurant chain looking to create a smart userflow with reservations and online ordering simply aren't going to go with a "no code" platform.

"Two 2016 sites, Xfinity.com and Gilt.com, on the other hand, are even more similar: They both have a menu bar on the top and are primarily white and black with images."

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I can definitely take another look at that - was trying to go for something different without being totally unrecognizable, but if it's too much it might make sense to only have the custom cursors on video hovers for play/pause.

Definitely makes sense! The UX was something I struggled with - I wanted something very different for it - simple in ways but also trying to focus on content more (vs having a "navigation" kind of thing). I'll take a look at this and see if there's a way to maybe call that stuff out more without being too in your face.

Finally launched my long in progress portfolio redesign and rebuild!

Content: rewrote basically everything, added a ton of captions and more detailed breakdowns with behind the scenes of the concept and content structures to tell a better story around projects and clients. Also added a bunch of new case studies, including the longest case study I've ever put together (it's this one: https://kyleconrad.com/wolfenstein/).

Design: found a gothic-inspired font that immediately threw my old redesign out the window, then was inspired by a pair of sneakers I fell in love with (literally stole the teal and purple from them thanks to the handy eyedropper tool).

Code: started from scratch, building it all out in Gatsby/React and using Contentful as the CMS - so it's fully static but powered behind the scenes with all the goodness of React (and all the headaches of React). One of the best parts of this new structure/build is that I can have a standalone URL for each case study. And it's fully open source, so check out the GitHub: https://github.com/kyleconrad/portfolio-2020

Hosting: moved away from a DigitalOcean droplet to an S3 instance with CloudFront distribution - basically that means it's hosted for cheap with blazing fast speed anywhere.

Yeah, at least on Chrome on macOS, there's no regular vertical page scrollbar on the right side.

A) I want to take this course, because SwiftUI looks incredibly interesting.

B) I hate sites that hide the scrollbar!

Yeah, the DB syncs seemed to be the big failing on Craft for us. We're used to WordPress for a lot of client stuff, and a plugin like WP Sync DB really solves any DB issues for us (in terms of syncing, backing up, pushing, pulling) so it would be nice to see a one click solution like this built for Craft.

I believe I tried doing this (it might've been on the version right before 3.1, this was about a month and a half ago), but the system kept telling me my project.yaml didn't match and then the database didn't match.