Building Noxfolio started with a very simple decision. For a while, I had this idea in my head that I wanted to have my own website. Not because I had a specific reason for it or wanted to make money from it. I just wanted a website that I had built myself. That was it. After some time, I decided to stop just thinking about it and actually start. Before Noxfolio, I was mostly focused on graphic design while continuing my studies in computer science. But building a complete website for myself was different from what I had done before. This time, it wasn’t just a practice project. I wanted to design everything myself and build everything myself. I spent almost a full month working on it. Some days I coded from morning until night. Some nights I stayed up until five in the morning working on one part of the website. Sometimes I spent hours just trying to find a small problem. The hardest part of building Noxfolio wasn’t actually coding. It was mostly solving problems and keeping the code structure clean. I would build something, look at it again a few hours later, and realize that I didn’t like the way I had structured it at all. Sometimes I deleted the whole code and started again. Other times I went back to an older version and continued from a different direction. There was even one time when I accidentally broke part of the code and spent hours trying to fix it. Eventually, I got so frustrated that I actually cried for a few hours. But I went back to the code again. I think one of the biggest things I learned while building Noxfolio is that there is almost always a better way to do something. Something that looks like a good solution today might not feel good enough a few months later when you’ve learned more. This happened with Noxfolio many times. I built things, then went back and changed them because I realized they could be cleaner or just done better. When Noxfolio finally started looking like what I had imagined, it was pretty interesting to see a simple idea that had only existed in my head turn into an actual website. Even now, when I look at it, there are still things I want to change and improve. I’ll probably look at the current version again a few months from now and wonder why I built something that way. But for now, I’m happy with the result. Noxfolio was never supposed to be a big or important project from the beginning. I just wanted to have my own website. I spent a month coding, breaking things, deleting things, rebuilding things, and eventually ended up with what I have now. And honestly, that might be the most interesting part of the whole thing for me. Because Noxfolio isn’t finished yet.