Since October 15, 2022 — after seeing many popular YouTubers and random tech bros having these impressive personal websites—I've dedicated myself to building my own. After 256+ commits, 650 intermediate days of work, and thousands of hours of research, prototyping, building, and debugging, ncp.dev is officially released for all public viewing as of, July 26, 2024.
The reason it took me so long was my indecisiveness about myself and the users that this website would be presented to. At first, it took a portfolio perspective, but later changed to more of a personal website than anything. Nonetheless, I was dedicated to a perfect first release, and KingPr0o7.github.io didn't live up to that standard. From there, I've improved and learned so many more things. Like e-mail communications, Astro, MDX, Vercel, and much better CSS and JS conceptual knowledge.
Which brings us to today, where I've also built my own personal brand, for the website and any other application or experience I make. I hope you enjoy my website, and if you do, please let me know or share to the word on social media. Hopefully, one day, I can see a YouTube video, tweet, blog, or podcast about how my website inspired or awed someone!
The Nathan Parker Brand, with my logo and pictogram, is currently pending trademark (™). Although they're not registered, you shouldn't without my written permission. You cannot pretend to be Nathan Parker (by using my logo or pictogram) or use my logo for your business, application, product, offering, project, social media account(s), or website(s) of any kind. Upon forking my repository, please remove any of my logos and standalone pictograms if published to your domain or any service provider. If you need more exact implications and usages pertaining to my brand, you can view the usage guidelines on the branding page.
🏎️ Any page loads in ~0.31s on average (dependent on internet speed)
💪 100% Lighthouse performance score for every page
📨 Email communications with Resend
💻 Fits almost any screen size
📝 Easy MDX blog entries
🧭 Lively navigation bar
- Clone the repository (zip or SSH)
- Unzip and get into the main directory (
portfolio-main/portfolio-main) - Install Node.js
- Install NPM (
npm install -g npm) - Install Astro (
npm install astro) - Run Development Server (
npm run dev)!
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For security reasons, you won't have access to any environmental variables, which makes the contact page (email communications) unlinked with Resend.
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Don't copy my site 1:1 — try to create something new and unique for you!
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Please remove any of my logos and standalone pictograms if published to your domain or any service provider.
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If you do end up using my contact logic, make sure to change all emails to your own.
Other than that, you are welcome to analyze, debug, or improve any part of the codebase!
All credits to all service providers, Astro libraries, notable contributors, and GitHub sponsors are listed in the credits page!
This repository is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. You can view the license here.