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๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ. ๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐ถ๐?
If you built it on a website builder โ probably not.
Your site lives on their servers. You pay monthly to keep it alive. Stop paying โ it goes dark. Prices go up โ you pay or lose everything. They shut down โ you start from zero.
๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐'๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐'๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐.
I build landing pages differently โ hand-coded HTML, CSS, JS. No platform. No subscription. No lock-in.
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ:
โฆ Full ownership of every file
โฆ Free hosting forever (Netlify)
โฆ Any developer can edit it
โฆ PageSpeed 90+, SEO-optimized
๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐ถ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ.
Website builders are great โ but built for their model, not yours.
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A clean, modern website design for a digital solutions company offering web development, mobile app development, digital marketing, and e-commerce solutions. The landing page highlights the companyโs services, experience, overview, client testimonials, and a strong call-to-action for potential clients.
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The 404 was treated as a proper page rather than a fallback state.
The number is constructed as an architectural drawing. The 4 and the 0 are formed from walls at true thickness, with furniture laid out inside the resulting rooms and dimension strings running along both edges. It sits inside the same drafting system as the rest of the site rather than borrowing a display typeface.
The error message then repeats. Instead of a single dialog, identical windows cascade back across the canvas, each one carrying the same 404 notice. It reads as a system throwing an unresolved warning over and over, which is the exact behaviour Heron is built to prevent inside a model.
Error pages are never in the brief. They're a good measure of whether a team understood the product or just styled it.
Treating a 404 as an actual page instead of a dead end is such a good instinct, where did the architectural drawing idea come from, personal interest bleeding into the work?
Iโve been razzmatazzing and flibbertigibbeting with Claude Code and somehow ended up with a new yels.dev.
It finally feels like me: simple on the surface, slightly complicated underneath, and very much alive.
You can see who I am, what I do, the work behind Herodot, RaptorLabs, CyberLink Security and Solmint, plus a selection of projects Iโve built across AI, cybersecurity, Web3, product systems, education, archives, and experimental digital spaces.
Built to be explored
The simple-on-the-surface, layered-underneath idea comes through so clearly in the presentation. I especially like how the project archive turns the site into something to explore rather than just a rรฉsumรฉ of links.
