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Pilot dossier · designer + developer

Meet the pilot

Hi, I’m Angelino. I’m a self-taught designer and developer with a philosophy degree, a soft spot for space and a habit of asking why before how.

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Crew ID · AB-001

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Angelino
Barajas

Role

Designer + developer

Flight Hours

10,000+

Degree

Philosophy

Crew

Spouse + 1 cadet

Clearance
Good missions only

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Role

Designer + developer

Flight Hours

10,000+

Degree

Philosophy

Crew

Married · 1 kid

Status

Available

/mission-statement

I build for the enthusiastic: people who light up when they talk about their idea, and companies that use what they make to do some good.

The best projects start with someone who can’t stop talking about what they’re building. My job is to catch that spark and turn it into something people can see, use and remember: planned carefully, designed with intent and built from the ground up.

I’m not here to make the internet louder. I’d rather help a small team with a big heart than polish something that doesn’t matter. If you’re trying to leave things a little better than you found them, I’d love to be on your crew.

Pilot · crew of three · accepting good missions

Parameter 01
I’ll be as excited as you are
Your project gets my full curiosity, not a template with your logo on it.
Parameter 02
You’ll always know where we are
Clear updates in plain language. No black boxes (the only black hole is in the footer).
Parameter 03
I’ll ask why
Old philosophy habit. Good questions early make for a better site later.
Parameter 04
We build it to last
A clean structure your team can run and grow long after launch day.

/flight-log · 5 waypoints

Flight log

How a philosophy student ended up building interactive 3D for the web.

OriginWaypoint 01

A philosophy degree

I studied how to ask better questions, take arguments apart and put them back together. Turns out that’s most of design.

IgnitionWaypoint 02

Taught myself design

No design school. Just curiosity, a lot of late nights and pulling apart work I admired to see how it was made.

LiftoffWaypoint 03

Then taught myself code

When a design needed something the tools couldn’t do, I learned to build it. That’s still how I pick up every new skill.

OrbitWaypoint 04

Webflow, WebGL + motion

Now I plan, design in Figma and build in Webflow from the ground up: interactive 3D, CMS systems and interactions that help people find what they came for.

NextWaypoint 05

Your mission

The next waypoint on this log is yours. Tell me what you’re building and we’ll plot the course together.

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/between-launches · crew quarters

Between launches

The things that keep me curious when the laptop’s closed. Every card does something, so go ahead and poke them.

Near the black hole

00:00:00

Back on Earth

0y 000d 00h

Favorite film

Interstellar

Love, time and gravity in one story. I’ve seen it more times than I’ll admit, and I still hold my breath during the docking scene.

Hover to fly close · 1 hour there = 7 years here

Drag to spin

Space + science

Always looking up

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Another fact

is how long sunlight takes to reach Earth. You are always seeing the Sun a little in the past.

spins so slowly that a day there is longer than its year.

can spin hundreds of times a second, packing more than the Sun’s mass into a city-sized ball.

launched in 1977 and is still sending data home from interstellar space.

is less dense than water. Find a big enough bathtub and it would float.

on Mars is roughly two and a half times the height of Everest.

from some of the galaxies Webb sees left them more than 13 billion years ago.

Home base

Crew of three

Married, with one kid. My favorite crew, and the reason I care about building things that last.

Question 01

Why does this page exist?

Philosophy degree

Why before how

Every project still starts with a few good questions.

Tap for another question

Player one

LV 07XP 000

Press start

Gamer

Side quests

Good games are a masterclass in onboarding, feedback and making people want to keep going.

Click to earn XP · know any cheat codes?

Book nerd

Always mid-book

There is always one on the nightstand. Mostly sci-fi, philosophy and science, plus the bedtime stories that are now half the shelf.

Knock a book off the shelf

Sci-fi

Philosophy

Astrophysics

Design

Cosmos

Ethics

Sci-fi

Typography

Black holes

Stoics

Space opera

Zarathustra

Physics

Game design

Sci-fi

Logic

Exoplanets

Interfaces

Time

Epic fantasy

Mind

Rockets

Sci-fi

Kid lit (shared)

Cosmology

/featured · 3 picks

Featured reads

Three field notes I'd hand you first. The full log lives in the Observatory.

WB-23

Why before how

min

Zombie websites and the hand of the maker: Ruskin, Gutenberg and building with AI

After World War II, the US built faster than ever, and builders copied modernism's look without the thinking behind it. What was left were buildings that worked and meant nothing: zombie buildings. AI has started a new building boom, and it can fill the web with zombie websites the same way. The way out is old. Have a point of view before you build. Write your standards down where the tools can follow them. Don't confuse done with good. And leave room for the strange, hand-made detail that shows someone cared. John Ruskin said it about Gothic cathedrals in 1853: you can see the hand of the maker in every column.

WB-19

Why before how

min

Bart sold his soul for five dollars: what The Simpsons taught me about building websites

In "Bart Sells His Soul," Bart signs his soul over to Milhouse for five dollars, and nothing dramatic happens. Small things just stop working. Automatic doors don't open for him. His breath doesn't fog the glass. He can't laugh at cartoons. Websites can lose their soul the same way: they still load, the buttons still work, and something small is quietly missing in every corner. That episode, plus a few Treehouse of Horror stories, taught me more about building things than I expected a cartoon to.

WB-13

Why before how

min

STAY: Interstellar, love and designing a message for someone you'll never meet

Near the end of Interstellar, Cooper is stuck in a tesseract behind his daughter's bookshelf. He can't talk to Murph. All he can do is push on small things across time: a few books, then the second hand of the watch he gave her. It works because she knows that watch, and she knows him. A website is the same kind of message. You send it forward to people you'll never meet, and it only lands if it speaks a language they already know and was made with real care for a real person.

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I’ll be as excited as you are

You’ll always know where we are

I’ll ask why

We build it to last

Flight log

A philosophy degree

Taught myself design

Then taught myself code

Webflow, WebGL + motion

Your mission

Between launches

Interstellar

Always looking up

Crew of three

Why before how

Side quests

Always mid-book

Featured reads

Zombie websites and the hand of the maker: Ruskin, Gutenberg and building with AI

Bart sold his soul for five dollars: what The Simpsons taught me about building websites

STAY: Interstellar, love and designing a message for someone you'll never meet

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