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-# whoami
-
-Personal portfolio site for **Pietro Quintavalle** — systems engineer, developer, and homelabber. Built as a single-page Next.js app with a dark, terminal-inspired aesthetic.
-
-**Live:** deployed via GitHub Pages on every push to `main`.
-
-## What's on it
-
-- A boot-sequence intro — the page opens on a black screen running a fake BIOS/POST log (hardware checks, homelab services starting up) before greeting the visitor and revealing the site. Skippable at any time with a click or keypress.
-- A single-page layout covering skills, homelab infrastructure, desktop specs, personal & client projects, open-source contributions, experience, and education.
-- An interactive terminal panel (in the "About" section) styled after a real shell session, complete with a `neofetch`-style system summary.
-- Hidden terminal commands — type into the terminal prompt:
-  - `mellon` — the Doors of Durin
-  - `you shall not pass` — the Balrog
-  - `iddqd` / `idkfa` — DOOM cheat codes
-  - `reboot` — replays the boot sequence
-
-## Stack
-
-- [Next.js](https://nextjs.org) 15 (App Router) + React 18 + TypeScript
-- Tailwind CSS for utilities, hand-written CSS (`app/globals.css`) for the page's design system
-- Statically exported (`output: 'export'`) and deployed to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions (`.github/workflows/nextjs.yml`)
-
-## Getting started
-
-```bash
-npm install
-npm run dev
-```
-
-Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000). The page auto-updates as you edit `app/page.tsx`.
-
-Other scripts:
-
-```bash
-npm run build       # static export to ./out
-npm run lint        # ESLint
-npm run type-check  # tsc --noEmit
-```
-
-## Structure
-
-```
-app/
-  page.tsx                    # all page content and sections
-  components/boot-sequence.tsx  # the black-screen boot/greeting intro
-  globals.css                 # design tokens + component styles
-  layout.tsx                  # metadata, fonts
-```