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Notes from building azizpixels.me — backend migrations, photography UIs, and the long process of shipping a portfolio that doesn't feel like a portfolio.
Building azizpixels.me, in pieces
Six months, four rewrites, two design systems, and one hard lesson: the website you ship is not the website you start.
EXIF as a design element
The camera metadata on every photo on this site is real — and treating it as a visible design element changed how I think about photography UIs.
Migrating the photo backend from OneDrive to Azure
Why I moved the photography pipeline off Microsoft Graph and onto Azure Blob Storage — and what I learned about token lifecycles the hard way.