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feat: redesign hero, unify site typography/spacing, and polish nav #29

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67 changes: 42 additions & 25 deletions about.html
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gap: 28px;
}

.header-controls {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 28px;
}

nav a {
color: var(--muted);
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: 200;
}

nav a:hover,
nav a:hover {
color: var(--ink);
}

nav a.active {
color: var(--ink);
font-weight: 600;
}

.theme-toggle {
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padding: 12px 0;
}

nav .theme-toggle {
margin-top: 8px;
.header-controls {
gap: 12px;
}
}

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margin-top: 56px;
}

.section-label {
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: 600;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 0.06em;
color: var(--muted);
.about-heading {
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: -0.005em;
color: var(--ink);
margin: 0 0 16px;
}

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.connect-list {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 4px;
}

.connect-list a {
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padding: 14px 10px;
margin: 0 -10px;
border-radius: 8px;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
color: var(--ink);
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: 600;
text-decoration: none;
transition: background-color 0.2s ease;
}

.connect-list a:last-child {
border-bottom: none;
}

.connect-list a:hover {
background: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.05);
}
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<a href="index.html" class="brand-name">Austin Edmonson</a>
</div>

<button class="nav-toggle" id="navToggle" aria-label="Toggle menu">
<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><line x1="3" y1="6" x2="21" y2="6"/><line x1="3" y1="12" x2="21" y2="12"/><line x1="3" y1="18" x2="21" y2="18"/></svg>
</button>

<nav id="siteNav">
<a href="index.html">Home</a>
<div class="header-controls">
<nav id="siteNav">
<a href="writing/index.html">Articles</a>
<a href="about.html" class="active">About</a>
<a href="projects/index.html">Projects</a>
<a href="uses.html">Uses</a>
</nav>

<button class="theme-toggle" id="themeToggle" aria-label="Toggle dark mode">
<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round">
<circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/>
</svg>
</button>
</nav>

<button class="nav-toggle" id="navToggle" aria-label="Toggle menu">
<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><line x1="3" y1="6" x2="21" y2="6"/><line x1="3" y1="12" x2="21" y2="12"/><line x1="3" y1="18" x2="21" y2="18"/></svg>
</button>
</div>
</header>

<main>
<div class="about-hero">
<h1 class="about-headline">I'm Austin. I build internal platforms that make thousands of engineers faster.</h1>
<img src="assets/austin-headshot.jpeg" alt="Austin Edmonson" class="about-avatar" />
</div>
<p class="about-bio">6+ years across DevOps, platform engineering, and software engineering. Self-taught but not self-made. I have benefitted from working with brilliant engineers and managers throughout my career - and learning alongside them. I collaborate across teams exceptionally well and I thrive in ambiguity and drive results. Started as a DevOps intern at Shadow Soft, moved into a Systems Engineer role at Acoustic AI, then joined The Home Depot, where I now own end-to-end CI/CD pipeline architecture for a 3,000+ developer organization. Alongside that, I'm the sole founder and developer of Partida, an immigration case management platform for families relocating to Portugal.</p>
<p class="about-bio">6+ years across DevOps, platform engineering, and software engineering. Self-taught but not self-made. I have benefitted from working with brilliant engineers and managers throughout my career - and learning alongside them. I collaborate across teams exceptionally well and I thrive in ambiguity and drive results. Started as a DevOps intern at Shadow Soft, moved into a Systems Engineer role at Acoustic AI, then joined The Home Depot, where I now own end-to-end CI/CD pipeline architecture for a 5,000+ developer organization. Alongside that, I'm the sole founder and developer of Partida, an immigration case management platform for families relocating to Portugal.</p>

<section class="how-i-work">
<p class="section-label">How I Work</p>
<h2 class="about-heading">How I Work</h2>
<ul class="philosophy-list">
<li><strong>Self-taught, by necessity.</strong> I'm good at finding the right resource, making sense of it fast, and turning unclear problems into working systems.</li>
<li><strong>AI as a multiplier, not a shortcut.</strong> Claude and Copilot compress the time it takes to get from ambiguity to clarity — the engineering judgment still has to be mine.</li>
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</section>

<section class="connect">
<p class="section-label">Connect</p>
<h2 class="about-heading">Connect</h2>
<div class="connect-list">
<a href="https://linkedin.com/in/abedmonson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor"><circle cx="4.98" cy="3.5" r="2"/><rect x="3.5" y="8" width="2.97" height="13"/><path d="M9 8h3v1.8h.05c.42-.8 1.46-1.8 3-1.8 3.2 0 3.8 2.1 3.8 4.9V21H16v-7.5c0-1.8-.03-4-2.5-4-2.5 0-2.9 1.9-2.9 3.9V21H9V8z"/></svg>
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return window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)').matches;
}

html.classList.toggle('dark-mode', isDark());
var sunIcon = '<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg>';
var moonIcon = '<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1 1 11.21 3 7 7 0 0 0 21 12.79z"/></svg>';

function updateIcon(dark) {
toggle.innerHTML = dark ? moonIcon : sunIcon;
}

var dark = isDark();
html.classList.toggle('dark-mode', dark);
updateIcon(dark);

toggle.addEventListener('click', function() {
var next = !html.classList.contains('dark-mode');
localStorage.setItem('theme', next ? 'dark' : 'light');
html.classList.toggle('dark-mode', next);
updateIcon(next);
});
})();
</script>
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