Web Development September 8, 2026
From Design to Build: Jacqueline's Personal Portfolio Website
How do you build one portfolio for someone who is both an aviation-trained Student Pilot and a rising cybersecurity engineer? This is the full design-to-build story of jacqmagawa.com — the throughline, the logbook-style flight timeline, the galleries, and why a hand-built static site was the right call.
Web Development September 8, 2026
Static vs React: Two Ways to Build a Portfolio
I built two portfolios back to back — one a hand-crafted static site, the other a React app with a FastAPI + MongoDB backend. Here's an honest, side-by-side comparison of when to go static, when to reach for a framework, and how to choose.