Why I Built My Portfolio as a Newspaper

Most developer portfolios follow the same template: a hero, a grid of cards, a contact form. They are easy to build and easy to forget.

I wanted mine to feel like something you actually read. A newspaper is built to carry a lot of information in a way that still feels calm and structured — mastheads, sections, pull quotes, classifieds. That structure maps surprisingly well onto a body of work: featured stories, a running record of projects, an editorial voice.

The result is The Jacinto Dispatch. Every project is a story with a headline, a problem, and a solution. The layout leans into serif display type, hairline rules, and an aged-paper texture — deliberate choices, not defaults.

This is also the first post in the Dispatch blog, which I manage entirely from the admin panel. No redeploys, no markdown files in a repo — just write, publish, done.