When I was a budding design engineer in 2010, having a custom website meant something. It was your digital calling card—a space to showcase craft, build reputation, and attract new business. Developers like me were hired to harness the emerging capabilities of HTML5: expressive inline SVG, timeline-based animations powered by GSAP, drool-inducing WebGL experiments, and complex CSS illustrations. Demos were imaginative and irreverent and, in the evolving world of creative coding, we built not jus...