web foundations
Front-End Development Experiments
Early web work that connected embedded interfaces, PHP-backed pages, AngularJS, and the realization that user interfaces could be serious engineering surfaces.
The beginnings
My first experience with web development came from tinkering with the ESP8266 WiFi-enabled microcontroller. Before I knew what APIs were, my default interface with the microcontroller was a very simple website with a dialog and a dropdown that could turn one of its IO pins high or low and trigger an attached relay.
Later, I found a beginner PHP course and was surprised by how much could be done with server-side processing and persistent storage such as SQL. That became the first bridge between simple pages and actual data-backed tools.
Over time, I picked up a good chunk of HTML and CSS, but the biggest leap came during my Target internship. AngularJS made data binding and session-driven interfaces click in a way static pages had not.
Student of the web
This older site came from the same curiosity: how do strong websites feel polished, responsive, and useful? At the time, the answer felt like a combination of careful CSS, JavaScript, and a willingness to keep iterating on the interface.