PortfolioOS

Before this site, my portfolio was a fake operating system that lived in the browser. Windows, a taskbar, draggable icons, a fake file explorer, the whole thing. You’d open “Projects” like a folder, double-click a project, and get a window with screenshots and copy inside.

The concept came out of my earlier Terminal Portfolio project. After running that for about a year I wanted something bigger, and “what if the portfolio was the operating system” felt like the natural escalation. I started in 2022, got distracted by other work, and finally finished it in 2024.

Right before I shipped it, I stumbled across Dustin Brett’s portfolio, which is genuinely one of the most impressive personal sites I have ever seen and does a very similar thing. That could have felt demoralizing, but it mostly just made me want to ship sooner. The whole thing is template-ready and configurable from a single YAML file, and I ended up selling it on Gumroad for anyone who wants to start with the same base. This current site is what replaced it when I decided I wanted something faster and less flashy for writeups.