rorymcl.com — Dev Log

Removed Bootstrap and hand-wrote styles.css from BRAND.md — forest green, warm cream, charcoal text, brass accent. Self-hosted Cormorant Garamond and IBM Plex Sans instead of Google Fonts. Built the RBM text monogram, a 2D crossfade "flip" for project cards, a vanilla-JS status modal, and a subtle topographic texture on the background.

Replaced the flat HTML files with an Astro build layer before writing any Phase 2 content, so Recommendations/Writing/Seeds/Photos would be built directly into a shared Layout and content-collection structure instead of being written as flat HTML and ported later. CSS and JS moved into public/ unchanged; the build output maps 1:1 to the old URLs, so no deploy or link changes were needed.

First new Phase 2 content section — five categories of personal picks, each with a short note on why it made the list.

The flip-card pattern fought content growth — the back face needed its own scrollbar once Goals and MVP criteria got long. Replaced it with a modal per project, reusing the Status Guide modal's markup and CSS, and removed the flip CSS/JS entirely.