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Marginalia: a portfolio for a designer-engineer, told as a sketchbook. Your cursor sketches in pencil and drops watercolour, the hero zooms into a pencil's point, a single pencil line draws the life story, one app screen goes from thumbnail to tracing paper to watercolour to shipped UI, and projects are pages of a spiral pad flipped by scroll. Designed and built in Next.js 16 and Tailwind v4.
That pencil trail is fun. Is it canvas or SVG?
It is drawn on a canvas.
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