A bolder, personalized website design
How I redesigned calvinf.com for the second time in 2026 with a clearer homepage, stronger typography, and a more useful path through seventeen years of posts.
Calvin
Freitas
Principal Engineer Website Builder AI‑native workflows
I build websites and services. Fast.
Accelerate delivery of your products using AI‑native engineering practices. Get in touch, or look at some of my posts below: favorites and recent.
Recommended reading
A few of my favorite posts.
Selected for enduring value from across the years.
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Website migrated to Ruby on Rails 8
Why and how I moved a seventeen-year-old WordPress blog to a file-based Rails 8 application without sacrificing its URLs or history.
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User experience defined, and its impact to your business
A practical definition of user experience, the work front-end engineers contribute, and why both matter to a business.
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Abraham Lincoln & Leadership
Leadership principles from Team of Rivals: magnanimity, balance, timing, deference, and the persuasive power of stories.
Recent posts
Latest blog posts.
Notes on websites, software, projects, and practice.
Night & Day
How AI-assisted development made it cheaper to experiment with and ship a carefully reviewed light and dark theme.
My Vite Starter
The choices behind a fast, reusable front-end environment for coding interviews and small React prototypes.
Node.js 20, Yarn 4, and Next.js on Docker
A compact multi-stage Docker pattern for shipping a standalone Next.js build with Node.js and Yarn.
The new Verses for Life website
Rebuilding a long-running scripture-memory project with Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, and multilingual content.
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