jadenflanery.com

The portfolio you're reading is about the software. This site is about the person: a single scrolling page that walks from experience to leadership to education, into a photo gallery, then letters people have written about me, then contact. Photographs are the point — thirteen slots plus a gallery, each reserving its exact dimensions so nothing shifts when a photo lands.

The rule that shaped every line of copy: no claim without a basis. Each number carries a note on where it came from, roles list what they actually were (a hobby is labeled a hobby), and the one honest line about not being good at tennis is there on purpose, because a page that only lists wins invites the reader to discount all of them.

Static Astro and Tailwind, near-black base with Mizzou gold as the only accent — pure black gives a dark photo edge nowhere to sit. Content lives in typed files where every editorial decision is written down next to the data it governs, so a future edit can see why a sentence reads the way it does.

Each section got its own motif built by hand: a tennis ball leaving a trail, rolling digits, tiger stripes, scrubbed text, a listen-along audio player for the letters. The repo is private on purpose because it holds photos of other people, and indexing stayed off until the custom domain was live.

Built the same way as everything here — a written design document first, then Claude executing under review — but the document did unusual work on this one. It is where overstatements got caught: a hero line that claimed five years of leading people was traced against the timeline and corrected to four, and a detail about cold-emailing firms that never happened was struck before it shipped.

That is the whole argument of the site in miniature: the process is not just for shipping code, it is for keeping claims honest.