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zenorocha/zenorocha.com
My personal website ❤️
Zeno Rocha's personal website — the same person who built clipboard.js, Dracula theme, and co-founded Resend. It's a Next.js App Router site with Tailwind, MDX articles, and Framer Motion animations. Useful as a reference for how a developer with a long public track record structures their personal presence.
The data-driven approach (projects, talks, investments all live in plain JS files under /data) makes content updates a one-liner with no CMS overhead. Lottie-based animated icons via JSON files in /public/static/icons is a clean pattern that avoids SVG sprite hell. The article archive is genuinely substantial — 15+ years of posts going back to early HTML5 era, which gives the site actual weight. CommandBar component suggests a keyboard-nav shortcut system, which is a nice touch for a dev audience.
This is a personal site, not a reusable template, so you'd be forking someone else's resume — data files are full of Zeno's talks, investments, and bio. No tests anywhere. The /app/api/email and /app/api/inbound routes have no visible auth or rate limiting in the tree, which is a concern if you clone this and forget about it. Font loading relies on self-hosted woff2 files with no fallback strategy visible, so a slow first paint is likely on cold loads.