This Portfolio is a Reflection of the Chaos of My Mind (And I'm Not Sure If That's a Good Thing)
Published: December 3, 2025 • 8 min read
Ever since my Dell-XPS 13 took its last breath on the night of the first of December, I have been working with a Chromebook and with Claude on the web. As a result of this, I am not able to begin working on the 777-1 experiment yet, as well as the case study I promised for the Campaign Wave application.
This has forced me to slow down and I have been spending a lot of time in my head. Now, I can't help but think that this portfolio website is a reflection of the chaos of my mind and I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
Let me explain.
The Starting Point
When I first created this site, I had no projects on display. As a matter of fact, this is what my projects page used to look like.
Then I decided to work on improving the website and create real projects so that I have proof of work and not just expect to be taken seriously by recruiters without that.
At this time, I had already realized that I really enjoyed writing, more than I wished to admit, particularly after I wrote this blog post about my short-lived journey as a YouTuber teaching mathematics at 16. So I wanted to continue doing that, and around the same time, I committed to creating the Project of Projects, the AI prompt engineering toolkit.
The SDR Era Begins
Then I started working on the Project of Projects and realized that I was spending too much time programming and not enough time practicing French, especially writing French, as I wished to. Then I started thinking of a way to solve this.
At this time, I was still applying to jobs. Then I had to make the audacious decision to stop applying to jobs and focus solely on building projects until the 13th of December. I later nicknamed this period my SDR Era, that is, my Skill Development and Refinement Era.
After I made this decision, as I continued working on my Project of Projects, I decided to test out Claude Code in the terminal by attempting to redesign the base version of the Prompt Engineering Toolkit I had designed. This version was far from what I had in mind but I thought I'd attempt the redesign anyways.
I knew a blog post was not going to do justice to what I had in mind for this experiment so I launched a Case studies section, even adding a French toggle to it as a way of adding more French to my daily life.
The French Writing Playground Arc
Then around this time, I had the idea of Version 1 of the French Writing Playground. I don't know how best to describe the experience of receiving this idea except that it was literally pounding in my head. I could see it so clearly and I could see how it would, in the long run, solve the issue I was having with practicing writing French daily.
So I paused my work on the Prompt Engineering toolkit and then built version 1 of the French Writing Playground app.
In the process of building this app, I faced an issue. I struggled with "bringing to life" the design that I had so clearly in my head for the French Writing Playground app. Then I did a little undocumented experiment where I created a single .tsx file of the main writing page of the app and then applied multiple design trends to it to figure out what I really wanted.
At the time, I figured that what I wanted was a combination of Glassmorphism with a little bit of Neumorphism. However, I ended up getting rid of the Neumorphic elements and sticking to just Glassmorphism. I eventually finished version 1 of the application.
The HR Hub Tangent
At this point, I was supposed to go back to working on the Project of Projects. Then once again, this problem that I faced inspired the HR Hub design showcase.
In my head, I just thought, I need to create an application where users can cycle through multiple design trends on a single application to decide what design trend they wanted to adopt for their projects. The goal was to create an application that would have all or most of the components found on most web applications, e.g., a dashboard, a ticketing system, a shopping cart, etc.
I decided to do this with the HR Hub design showcase project.
Why I Write
Around this time, I was still writing daily, multiple different blog posts and I developed an even deeper love for writing except there was a new reason now.
Have you ever heard the saying that if you want to make sure you truly understand something, teach it to someone else?
I noticed that writing was my own way of teaching to "someone else" even when no one is reading yet. Writing forced me, and still forces me to think deeply about concepts and helps me clarify my thoughts as well. If I have a thought and cannot write about it, then my thoughts aren't really clear and that may be as a result of lack of knowledge or deeper understanding of what led to the thought.
Also, when I write, I tend to ask myself, "what questions would anyone reading this have?" This forces me to try to cover as many edge cases as possible about whatever I was writing about and in the process, reinforced my learning.
Around this time, I wrote about capturing one's AI personality as I faced this issue of hitting conversation limits with Claude. This led to the formation of the term, LLM Instance Cloning and also another case study since I could not share my personal Blog refinement instance that contained some mildly sensitive information.
Version 2.0 and New Distractions
Now remember, I was still working on the HR Hub design showcase project, while simultaneously using the French Writing Playground version 1 for daily practice.
Around this time, I also decided to pick up the skill of using DaVinci Resolve as well, which eventually led to the start of its own blog series, "DaVinci Resolve is out to make me crazy".
Well, as I used version 1 of the French Writing Playground, I couldn't help but notice its flaws such as limited mood selection, the fact that I didn't really need Make.com, the lack of authentication not allowing users to follow their progress, etc.
Then the next thing, I created Version 2.0 to address these issues and more.
The Claude God Mission
At this point, I was still not done with the HR Hub design showcase and frankly, I had been distracted a lot from it. Then I thought, maybe there is a way to simply improve my speed working with this application.
I only had 26 days left till the end of my SDR Era so I started a mission to become a Claude God. I wanted to learn how to use Claude so efficiently to optimize my speed as my deadline was approaching and I had still not made progress on my Project of Projects and the HR Hub design showcase.
So I started the Claude God tips series and sharing the tip about creating sophisticated images using HTML+CSS+JavaScript led to the birth of the ViteHero application, which is only still sitting at 70% completion now.
I also learned about subagents and this was it! At this moment, a light bulb lit in my head and I had new plans for what the AI prompt engineering toolkit, my Project of Projects, also known as the project that'll never end was going to be.
I paused the ViteHero Project and the HR Hub design showcase project. I knew I had to prioritize the 777-1 Experiment.
The Dell-XPS Passes Away
As I began to set the stage in the background for this project, my 3 year old Dell-XPS 13 passed away (a moment of silence please).
I didn't want to stop writing so now I am working with a used Chromebook I got 2 years ago while simultaneously updating this site using Claude on the web. This has definitely made me slower but maybe that is a good thing because just yesterday, I learned of a new term, "Context Engineering".
Without going too much into it, this term might change the trajectory of the 777-1 experiment.
Is This Chaos Good or Bad?
Now I sit here looking at my projects page which has multiple projects sitting at 70% completion and feeling that it looks too chaotic. The thing I can't decide is whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Clearly, all the decisions made on this website have been based on new ideas and new information I get everyday. I have constantly had to prioritize and reprioritize items on my to-do list. Let's not even forget the Dyscalculia case study I planned to complete as well before the end of my SDR Era.
I don't have an answer to whether this chaos is good or bad. Maybe there might even be a better term to describe it.
However, I think I will continue this way for now since I can't deny that progress has been made on this portfolio website so far.
A Note to Past Prisca
I am grateful to Prisca from October 23rd this year who made the brave decision to go all in on building. She has and is still learning so much about herself and her work.
However, the most important thing she has learned is that there is so much, so so much she doesn't know and these days, she finds herself sometimes wishing that there were more than 24 hours in a day so that she can learn and explore more.
However, she is committed to using the 24 hours she has to the very best of her abilities for now.
As always, thanks for reading!