Martin Svoboda — Portfolio & Story

An empty folder to production in 4 days — then a 3D layer in 6 more.
Built with Claude Code, by a pilot, not a programmer.

A personal **scrollytelling website**: you scroll, and a life flies past — school & Pascal chess → military jet pilot (Z‑142, L‑39, L‑159) → Afghanistan → airshow display flying → self‑healing → Bitcoin → building with Claude Code. **Scroll = time.** The story is the hook, the projects are the proof, a single email is the goal.

The aircraft flying over the canvas are the types I actually flew in the Czech Air Force. The green cockpit HUD is drawn procedurally in code — modelled on a reference image, in the generic military‑jet HUD vocabulary. It isn't the L‑159's own instrument; but the L‑159's HUD *was* green, so the green shows up only in the L‑159 moments.

Live: **https://svobodamartin.dev**

**On how this was built.** I spent 20 years in the Czech Air Force, 17 of them flying military jets, later as an acceptance test pilot. I'm not a career developer: I don't hand-write the code, I direct it with **Claude Code** and verify everything. That's stated on the site itself, and it's the honest frame for this repo: what I brought is the discipline the job beat into me. Nothing shipped until it was verified. **Architecture decision records** capture *why* (including the ones where I record my own wrong diagnoses), every mobile bug was reproduced by a harness that provably failed on the pre-fix code, and `npm run check` had to be green before every commit.


Stack

• Vite 6 + React 18 + TypeScript 5.7 (strict) — no framework beyond React.
• HTML Canvas 2D — every scene is a pure render(ctx, alpha, localT, time, cfg) function.
• three.js r182 + React Three Fiber 8 — the additive 3D layer (8 real GLB airc