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2026-08-17•4 min read

Nobody Needed a 2D Canvas Portfolio. I Built One Anyway

Why I built an infinite 2D canvas portfolio with 60 FPS rendering, placed my cat and motorcycle above Home, and engineered on-demand loading under 20KB.

ArchitecturePerformanceUI/UXViteCanvasPhilosophy
2026-08-17•6 min read

Achieving 85% Payload Reduction on an Infinite Canvas

How I eliminated the all-sections-in-one-DOM trap on a 2D canvas portfolio, fixed CSS transform bugs, and slashed pre-rendered HTML payload from 173KB to 19KB.

ReactSSGPerformanceSEOViteCanvasCSS Architecture
2026-08-12•6 min read

Building an Infinite 2D Canvas Portfolio with SSG

Why 2D spatial navigation creates a tactile digital brain experience, and how it evolved into a hardware-accelerated, static pre-rendered portfolio platform.

ReactTypeScriptUI ArchitectureCanvasSEOSSG
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