Building the frontend of a site for a client is easy (famous last words); you have a design to translate, a client to haggle with for changes in said design to make it within the realm of technical possibility and allotted time and are usually supported by a team of developers and capable project lead.
Building your own, personal site is … different.
Now, I'm a frontend developer and by no means a designer and when you make your own sites it shows. I went right into little technical details instead of looking at what's really important: the content. The what instead of the how. I find this to be an important distinction. So for the moment, I'm going bare bones with this site and just make it a personal blog for now with a minimalist design. This will give me some content ideas as I develop this site further.
Although … I did went and experimented with light and dark modes just to see what I could do with it like generate a complete colour palette from one colour. It's not super great in dark mode yet but I'm working on it. Again: developer, not designer.
So what do I want to do with this site? I found that I sometimes have trouble writing text and I want to work on that. What better than starting a blog?