Septn.com — a Hugo portfolio themed after the Godot editor

Hey, wanted to share my personal site: septn

I contribute to Godot and work with it regularly, so when it came time to build a portfolio I thought: what if the site itself looked like a project open in the editor? :rofl: Not a novelty skin—an actual attempt to map tabs, inspector panels, and a filesystem sidebar onto a real navigation system. :smiley:

  • The top bar maps site sections to editor tabs (About lives under “Script”, Projects under “AssetLib”, etc.)

  • Tags, dates, and other metadata live in an Inspector panel beside the content instead of being scattered around

  • The output console gives the site a sense of active process even though it’s fully static

  • Hit the Play button and see what happens

I wrote about the design decisions behind it—particularly the part where the metaphor almost went too far and needed pulling back:

Curious if anyone else here has pushed Hugo’s layout system into heretical interface territory.

Forgot to link the homepage itself at the beginning of the post, well here it is:

septn.com