No build step.

This site has no bundler, no framework, no compile step, and no node_modules in production. The files you get are the files I wrote. View source and you are reading the actual site, not the exhaust of one.

That is a deliberate trade. The animation libraries are vendored as three static files. The fonts are self-hosted. Every interactive demo on the work pages, the balance recovery, the gait lab, the parking sandbox, is one hand-written JavaScript file and one stylesheet, mounted by a data attribute and fetched only when you scroll near it. Nothing here can break because a dependency three levels down changed its mind.

What it costs is discipline, because nothing is automated for you. Cache-busting stamps have to move in lockstep across every page, so a script bumps them all at once. There is no framework catching broken links or missing alt text, so a headless browser walks every page in CI and fails the push on anything a visitor would notice. The machinery a build step would hide still exists. It is just visible, small, and mine.

I would not run a bank on this. For a personal site meant to last years with occasional weekend edits, plain files are the most durable format there is. HTML from 1995 still renders. Nothing built by a toolchain from 2019 does.