Run Buddy

A responsive landing page for a fictional running coach service, built from scratch with Flexbox. It taught me more about layout than any tutorial had up to that point, and it's still the project I go back to when I forget how align-items works.

Weather Widget

A small widget that pulls live conditions from a public API and displays them by city. It was my first time really working with fetch and async/await, and the error handling took longer than the actual feature.

Portfolio v2

A complete redesign of my personal site, stripped down to the essentials. Cleaner typography, faster load times, and about a third of the JavaScript the old version needed.

Task Tracker

A to-do list app that saves everything to local storage so tasks survive a refresh. Deceptively simple on the surface, but managing state without a framework turned out to be a real exercise in patience.

Recipe Finder

Search for recipes based on the ingredients you already have at home. The idea came from staring at a nearly empty fridge one Sunday evening, and it's the first project I've actually used more than once.

Pixel Canvas

A browser-based pixel art editor with a dynamic grid and a custom color palette. Users can resize the canvas, pick colors, and export their drawing as an image. Building the grid was easy; making it feel responsive to drag events was not.