I always had it linked on my profile, but now I have come to a version of my personal website that I can be satisfied with, so I thought I’d try and show it to you guys: arcanesunset.com
Took a lot of my last weekends to build a simple site. Put a challenge for me to work on an actual MVC, so I built one from pure PHP.
Too much stuff to improve, I already have 2 post-its worth of a list of potential improvements, but I just wanted to come to a working, albeit imperfect version. I’d welcome any suggestions on the graphical presentation, since it is not my expertise, and also on backend improvements, since this is my first time dabbling in framework construction.
Here you will find the repository.
Important advisory: I partially used AI to build it. My work is hassling me to use agents when I’m on the clock, so I used my personal website as a training ground to work with them more effectively. Admittedly I did it on local machines with LMStudio using open models (Qwen3.6 27B works ok on my gaming PC) and I used them mainly for automation of most of the busy work - serialization of my poems into XML format, documentation writing, debugging obscure DI related shenanigans and boilerplate code I used as a model to write my actual classes and services… I’m still confident saying this structure is one I’d make myself, I personally blueprinted and developed at the least 95% of it, only it would have needed me at least 8 months, instead of 4.
Be free to have a look and speak your mind.