worked around 8 hours on the projects section of akhilkonduru.com today.

i wanted the react side of it to feel less hardcoded, so i moved a lot of the project data into a cleaner structure and mapped it into reusable cards instead of manually editing each one. after that i spent a while fixing responsive issues because the layout looked fine on my screen but started falling apart on wider monitors and some smaller widths too.

the filtering and animation logic also took longer than i expected since a couple state changes were causing weird visual glitches when switching categories. it is a lot cleaner now though and adding future projects should be way easier.