First post

Saturday, Feb 10, 2024 | 2 minute read | Updated at Monday, Feb 10, 2025

Will Rohren

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Color Test!

(Note, this portfolio was created 2/10/25, but all posts have been modified to show the approx. date which they were started)

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This is my first post to this website. There are a lot of things I’m figuring out all at once. I’m not a software developer, but it’s probably good for me to be able to do this. Most of the heavy lifting (coding wise) was done by people much smarter than me, but I still am putting in a bit of effort to figure this all out, and get it looking the way I want it to.

Honestly I think the hardest part will be retrospectively going back and figuring out dates for all my project work. I had a google sites portfolio, but it was really limited in customization & formatting. As such I never really put any effort into documenting the things that I worked on, and now I’m wishing I had. I did some noteworthy things, and I want to be able to have one place where I can show it off.

Also I will eventually be rolling out new images, as I get better pictures for my projects. Some old breadboard projects obviously don’t exist anymore, so reshoots are impossible, but I will try to get more visually-pleasing images for some of my old PCB projects.

Big weeknd fan

Update (8/31/25): I saw him in concert in Houston!! 11/10 he’s the GOAT

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Email: wmrohren@gmail.com

Resume: here (last updated 8/30/25)

Google Sites Portfolio Warning: There’s a reason I abandoned the old portfolio & remade it with Hugo.

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It’s because google sites kinda sucks in terms of how customizable it is. As you’ll see if you visit my old portfolio, there’s a navigation bar at the top, some with drop downs. But as far as the actual content goes, it’s really space inefficient. Under ‘Personal Projects > Big Projects’, to even see the SECOND item requires scrolling past all of the content in the first item.

I didn’t like it. So I thought of trying Hugo, and was given the idea by seeing other people using it (namely various Starforge members Brandon and Ismael to name two examples). I found a theme I liked, with blog-like posts and decided that was a suitable way to display my content.

One last note about formatting, once I have a lot more projects under my belt, I’d like to switch to a grid-like format, similar to one used by mitxela

Anyhow, the google sites portfolio linked above has a lot of my smaller projects on it. From 3D prints to school engineering club events, to VEX Robotics.

I expect that I will make posts dedicated to grouping these together. This is relatively low priority right now though, since the projects I have been able to do in college have been much more impactful than the projects I did in middle or high school. This is mostly related to money, as working on the RPS is allowing me to spend my own money on projects.

Feel free to email with any questions :)