After years of work, I have finally launched my portfolio site. Those of you who know me well know the struggle I have been through to get this thing online. For those of you who don’t or can’t remember, you will find out if you can be bothered reading this. This is my story for the past few years: An endless cycle of frustration, failure, hope, design and those small victories that eventually pay off. The amount of times people said "why don’t you just give up and go back to architecture? Surrender to the market and become a generic Revit documentor." Or "just build a simple version in wordpress. It wont take that long. I will bloody well do it for you just to relieve you of the stress!" But I knew that using a generic tool with a slightly modified template wouldn't cut the mustard for what I wanted to do. Teaching yourself to code real web development is a huge learning curve, and there have been times when I considered giving up entirely, or regretting the path I had gone down. Trying to explain to web designer friends technical issues in order to solve problems without being allowed to describe the context of why I needed to use a software that nobody else seemed to be using was endlessly frustrating. But writing this now I feel somewhat vindicated.