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Notes on building for the web — frontend, backend, and the occasional 3D experiment.

Building a 3D Portfolio with React Three Fiber

How I built an animated particle hero and extruded 3D name in Next.js — and the performance trade-offs that actually matter.

A pragmatic setup for deploying Laravel to AWS — queues, caching, and the boring reliability work that keeps things up.

Both are great. Here's the honest, project-by-project heuristic I use to pick between them.