personal site

The new personal site. Three modes over one URL space:

1. Constellation — force-directed graph at /.
2. Timeline — same graph projected on a date axis at /t.
3. Document — node detail, with the graph still alive in a minimap.

Phase 1 ships the walking skeleton: content pipeline, plain index, plain detail pages. The graph and the shared-layout transitions arrive in phases 3 and 4. See docs/ROADMAP.md.

Site lineage

Four versions of a personal site, oldest to newest — a Weebly portfolio, two iterations of an al-folio Jekyll fork, and this rewrite.

• pre-2021Weebly portfolio

  Started in a 9th-grade engineering class and grown from there — a drag-and-drop Weebly site collecting school-era engineering and programming projects. It pointed visitors onward to the next version with a single line: “Please see my new website at jacobfv.github.io.”

  
• 2021al-folio fork

  Forked from alshedivat/al-folio: a Jekyll theme with a clean academic layout. Tech used: Jekyll, Liquid, Jupyter, GPT-3. In hindsight, a little cringe — a borrowed grad-student CV theme worn as a personal identity, with GPT-3 namedropped in the tech list for flair.

  
• 2026al-folio, final form

  Years of incremental edits later — the same Jekyll base carried a dark theme, an updates feed, and a refreshed bio before being retired.

  
• 2026This site

  The current rewrite — Next.js + MDX, every artifact a node in a graph, the navigation is the relationship. Source at JacobFV/jvboid.dev; the old JacobFV/jacobfv.github.io repo now just redirects here.