---
title: "Welcome"
description: "Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer: who I am and what this place is."
url: "https://wagenfuehrer.com/welcome"
author: "Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer"
---

# Simon’s Board

> Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://wagenfuehrer.com/llms.txt). Any page is available as markdown by adding `.md` to its address.

Welcome to my website. Most of what I make lives here, along with the stats I collect about things in my life and whatever else I feel like keeping track of.

I built it for myself, mostly for fun. What you’re looking at is the public half: projects I’ve shipped, my CV, the places I’ve been, the flights I’ve taken, and the occasional thought written down. The rest is a handful of little apps I use day to day.

The point of it was to have somewhere to experiment with interesting UI and UX for a web app, instead of building another boring personal website. That’s where the navigation and the board mechanic you’ve probably already run into come from. Below is how it actually works.

## The board

Every tile is a real thing. Drag them anywhere; whatever you move last stays on top. Click one to open it.

## Going back

When you’re done with a page, just scroll up past the top (or pull down on your phone) and it drops you back on the board. There’s a back button in the top left corner too, but you shouldn’t need it. The whole site should work with nothing but a mouse, or a thumb.

## The bottom edge

While a page is open, the rest of the board tucks into the bottom edge, and the open page always sits in the middle of the row. Click any other tile and it slides to the center, swipe sideways to flick through them (the row loops around), or drag tiles within the row to reorder them. They’re still just tiles; they never stopped being draggable.

## Full pages

Every page here uses the whole screen. When one opens, the row of tiles shows for a moment, then it sinks to the bottom edge and greys out, and only the open page’s tile keeps its colour. Move your mouse to the bottom edge of the screen and the row comes back. On a phone, tap a tile.

## Why it’s like this

I wanted a site I could move through fluidly, with a flick of a thumb or a mouse, without clicking through buttons and menus to get anywhere. And I wanted somewhere to play with UI and UX: the paper, dragging things around, the themes, scrolling up to go back.

If it feels a bit like a toy, that’s the point. It’s an experiment first and a personal website second. If you have any thoughts on it, let me know.