VB.
With appreciation

Made with care.
In good company.

The ideas and tools behind this personal home. Inspiration is acknowledged; identities, artwork, and complete designs have not been copied.

Design inspiration

  • Linear

    Product clarity, focused hierarchy, and restrained depth.

  • Anthropic

    Editorial pacing and thoughtful long-form reading.

  • Apple

    Compositional restraint and attention to detail.

  • Jyotirmoy Das · Chánh Đại · Manu Arora

    Personal engineering identity and connections between work, writing, and craft. Also see chanhdai.com and manuarora.in.

  • Maxime Heckel

    Interactive explanations as part of technical writing.

Open source

  • Next.js & React

    Application framework and component model. MIT licensed.

  • Tailwind CSS

    CSS toolchain. MIT licensed.

  • Radix Primitives

    Accessible dialog and focus behavior. MIT licensed.

  • Simple Icons

    Technology marks from the CC0 icon catalog. Individual marks remain subject to their owners’ brand guidelines and trademark rights.

  • Font Awesome Brands

    AWS and LinkedIn icon geometry, Fonticons, Inc. Icons licensed under CC BY 4.0; used without changes to their path geometry.

  • MDX · Shiki · Zod

    Trusted content rendering, code highlighting, and validation. MDX, Shiki and Zod use MIT licenses; next-mdx-remote uses MPL-2.0. Dependency notices remain in the source distribution.

  • Playwright · Vitest · axe-core

    Browser, logic, and automated accessibility checks. Apache-2.0, MIT, and MPL-2.0 respectively.

Type & artwork

  • Geist Sans & Geist Mono

    Self-hosted through Next/font; license notices retained in the Geist package. SIL Open Font License 1.1. Editorial accents use the visitor’s system serif.

  • Signal paths & diagrams

    Original Canvas, SVG, and CSS artwork made for this website. The hero is a generative ribbon sculpture; project panels are conceptual illustrations, not product screenshots. The VB monogram is original.

  • University identities

    Official Michigan Block M and Penn State Nittany Lion shield, sourced from university websites and used to identify education. Marks belong to their universities; no endorsement is implied. Penn State guidelines: brand.psu.edu.

  • Kaarya AI identity

    Owner-supplied official faceted symbol, preserved as provided and animated within an original orbital composition. The logo belongs to Kaarya AI. Technology and social marks identify tools and destinations; no endorsement is implied.

Acknowledgments

No personal endorsements, collaborators, awards, or sponsorships are implied by these credits. Personal acknowledgments will be added only when supplied and approved.