Design lead Francesco Improta rebuilds personal site in code

Francesco Improta @zetareticoliOriginally posted 2026.09.21

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My personal website redesign was supposed to be “a new layout.” It became: - 28 active days spread across 86 calendar days - 152 commits - 161 files changed - 10,519 additions / 4,318 deletions I built the new UI directly in code, customizing Liquid layouts (built on Jekyll), HTML, CSS, Javascript. Used a mix of Cursor and Codex for bug hunting, recurring tasks, audits, and optimizations. Finally live at https://francescoimprota.com