Building ramine.net
Case study · 2026
The novel techniques behind this site, from a live citation engine to a spatial WebXR edition.
This site is itself a side project: a place to try ideas about how a portfolio should work, and a test bed for building polished things quickly with AI. A few of the less obvious pieces:
A citation engine. Claims across the site can carry numbered citations that renumber themselves per view, so the evidence stays consistent no matter which page you land on and nothing has to be tracked by hand.
An ask-anywhere evidence console. A small AI surface that answers questions about my work by composing sourced, cited answers from the underlying corpus, rather than from a model's memory. It is gated behind a private entry so the public site stays clean.
A WebGL home. The landing experience leads with real-time 3D rather than a wall of text, with the chrome kept to plain DOM for accessibility and speed.
A spatial edition. The whole site is also a walk-through WebXR gallery for Apple Vision Pro. That is its own Lab entry: the Spatial Gallery.
Built to be fast and durable. Every route is prerendered to static HTML with no single-page fallback, so each page resolves and is crawlable on a cold load, and all media runs through a pipeline that emits modern formats with inline placeholders and fallbacks.
The throughline: use AI to take an idea to a working, well-crafted product, then keep the bar high on performance, accessibility, and taste.