So I've just revamped my website...

After three years of running the same "try-hard" design, I decided it was time to relax it. Here's the result (Updated on Jan 22, 2026):

Not a big deal, if anything, I simplified and made it casual. Not only did I want to refresh the look and feel of my site, but I also wanted to play around with Figma a little bit.

After three years of rocking the same design, I figured it was time for a refresh. My old site did its job, but it was starting to feel a bit stale, and I wanted to remove everything I could. The best design is no design they say.

Plus, it gave me a chance to dive back into blogging, something I quit two years ago but have been itching to pick up again. This time, I made sure the blog section was distraction-free and easy to read, so I can focus on sharing ideas without all the noise.

I don't give a F about SEO anyways

The new site also marks a shift in focus. My old one was all about selling freelance services, adding a bunch of buzzwords for SEO purposes. But this version is more like a personal profile or resume.

LinkedIn doesn't always tell the full story, and my GitHub work is scattered across different accounts (6 at the time of writing this), so I needed a central hub to showcase everything in one place. Oh, and I've been deleting my LinkedIn on and off whenever faking the fact that I hate likedIn became a burden, so this site is now my single source of truth.

Under the hood, I modernized the stack, ditching the old version of Next.js and SASS for the latest Next.js and Tailwind CSS. It's faster, easier to maintain, and just more fun to work with.

Also I still don't see the need of using any CMS tool 🤷. I know, I know... Commiting and pushing after every new markdown file doesn't really speak good about me as a dev. But seriously, lets say I migrate to the simplest headless CMS, to me updating the codebase just for this purpose is even worse 🤷.

I've also built an e-commerce section to display (and maybe even sell) some web templates I've been working on for fun, because why not? Speaking of templates, I've been wanting to create a portfolio template to sell, so I used my own site as the guinea pig. Once I tweak it a bit, I'll offer it to anyone who's interested. Again, just for fun.

Yet another guru

Another big reason for the revamp is that after seven years in the game, I'm ready to start sharing what I've learned. I'm certainly not a guru, but people do ask their questions when visiting my web templates. I am planning to teach coding and, more importantly, design for coders, which is something that I don't see much people doing, sadly. This site will be the platform for that.

Playing along building a cool resume tool

And finally, I added a resume section as a little experiment. My goal is to turn it into a standalone tool that can automatically generate tailored resumes online. It's still a work in progress, but hey is doing the job for me.

So yeah, I owed myself this revamp for so long. I'll keep iterating on it, adding new stuff, maybe removing some other... Is far from perfection... But the previous one was overthought and I felt it was too much of a "hire-me-iam-a-good-employee-look-how-good-i-do-it-type-of-site" if you know what I mean.

Strictly to the point: Timeline of things I've built so far

I have been thinking about the concept of some kind of autobiographical timeline, therefore the vertical lines and heatmap concept.

I initially built the heatmap to display the actual github contributions fetching it with Github API, but man, I barely did shit in 2024 and that made the timeline look broken (No green squares for way too many months in a row). I do still have saved another branch just in case I publish this as a template.

The tech stack

Nothing new, here's what I used to build this entirely new repository:

On the frontend is Next.js (modern version) and Tailwind CSS for styling.

Backend is obviously Next.js API routes for handling server-side logic. Playing along with a couple of external APIs: Credly, LinkedIn...

MongoDB for storing dynamic content... You can imagine. But AWS S3:** AWS S3 Bucket to store "heavy" files. Pretty much the zipped digital goods on iamtonysanchez.com/art

Hosted with Vercel.

I'll keep playing from time to time

Make sure you pay attention to this blog and the art section. I will try to add new content on a weekly basis. No freebies in the art section, free templates end-up being re-selled by lazy themeforest parasites anyways so I'm all about making them unaffordable. A story based on true events.

But you will quickly realize why they just can't be for free. Have a look at them, sorry for being such a pedantic asshole but those are the templates I've always wanted to find when I was a heavy consumer of them.

Any feedback about my new site?

If you have any complaints you can send an email to whocares@iamtonysanchez.com, I'd love to hear from you! 🤥

Like this new site and wanna download a template? You can actually get it here

Thanks for stopping by,