2025 Projects Recap
2025 was my first year building websites and apps full-time. I had an absolute blast building each website. My favorite part was working with clients, understanding their intentions, and then ultimately, making those intentions manifest through their websites.
I learned a ton throughout the year, but the number one thing I learned was that each website must be different. We’re in an age of peak templates and websites looking the same, but a good website has thought, design intention, and attention to detail behind it.
In this post, I’m recapping the projects that I worked on in 2025.
Anna Neshyba’s Website
Link: annaneshyba.com
Anna Neshyba is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest. Together we built a really neat website for her work. The idea of the website, as I wrote on substack a few months ago, is to bring the reader into her imaginative world.
Cosmic Frontier Labs
Link: cosmicfrontier.org
Cosmic Frontier Labs is a space telescope company “building a new class of scientific tools to accelerate discovery and exploration of the Universe. Standard platforms. Modular instruments. Rapid iteration. Built to put more scientific capability in space, more often.”
Their website starts with an animation of telescopes orbiting the Earth, peering out into space. By default, space is dark and nothing can be seen. Where the telescopes look becomes visible, revealing the phenomena of the cosmos.
inContext: Rethinking Language Learning
Link: incontextlearning.com
inContext is a collaboration with Miguel Conner that rethinks how language learning works in the AI era.
Here’s our description from the website:
Welcome to your inContext Notebook – a daily 5-minute language learning challenge designed just for you. Every day, you’ll read a short, engaging text tailored to your exact level, along with comprehension questions and vocabulary cards. The best part? You pick the content you love—making learning personalized, interesting, and enjoyable. Dive into native materials and watch the barriers disappear with your daily inContext Notebook.
Our Wedding Website
Link: catandalex.net and catandalex.net/story
Cat and I had our wedding this year! (You can read my vows here.)
So of course we needed a website to tell people what’s going on, collect RSVPs, and most importantly, to tell them about our story.
Cat and I are most proud of the story page. It’s a short but very sweet and sentimental story, about how we ultimately arrived at the wedding day. The ups and downs, places we lived, and the people and animals we shared time with.
My big goal with our wedding website was to set a tone for our wedding early. I wanted the wedding to feel communal, collaborative, more about bringing people together than centering Cat and me. Sure, technically everyone is there to celebrate us, but they’re going to be spending most of their time hanging out with not-us. They’re going to be catching up with old friends, seeing family, and making new friends. And we wanted this website to set the tone for that experience early.
By the way, if you want a wedding website and don’t have the biggest budget, send me a quick message anyway. There are some pretty cool ways to build a wedding website on the cheap, so you don’t just have to use Zola; you can make your website reflect the vibe that you want in your wedding.
Big shoutout to Mason Joel who absolutely crushed the photography at our wedding. We highly recommend him if you’re having a wedding soon!
Product Animations for Ethyca
Ethyca collaborated with an agency to rework their website. As part of that effort, I worked with them to create animations of their product suite.
Their products support data privacy and management initiatives for organizations like the New York Times. So when you visit the NYT, Ethyca determines how your data should be managed based on your cookie preferences, subscription status, regulations from your locality, and more.
The animations of the products show how data flows through their platform: how that data is sorted, partitioned, filtered, and organized.
Max Life Foundation
Link: givemaxlife.com
Max Life Foundation is a foundation for supporting pediatric cancer treatment started by Sam and Natalia Peurifoy. The website has a playful, childlike feel, while still maintaining a seriousness and cultivating trust.
Cat Neshyba’s Website
Link: catnesh.net
Cat Neshyba is writer of romance, fantasy, and personal essays.
On their website, we wanted to emphasize the word. The visitor’s eyes are drawn towards the writing, and then move away, and then come back again to the words. To that end, we started with a nice big paragraph next to a photo that has angles pointing to the writing. The photo has a lot of empty space and is not very kinetic.
We then flow into quotations from Cat’s work, as little samples that keep the user thinking about words and their expressions. And finally, we list out Cat’s works in stylized lists.
The typeface is similar to what you’d find in a book--it’s Source Serif 4--but we made it bigger and thinner to increase the stylized feel.
Vyx
Link: vyx.gg
In collaboration with Entropic, I led the development of Vyx, a tool for getting crypto projects off the ground by providing tools for launching on-chain and off-chain incentive campaigns.
Metrion’s Website
Link: metrion.space
Metrion is a data consultancy that turns complex geospatial data into clear insights that help organizations understand and prepare for location-specific risks. They specialize in building-level analytics that combine artificial intelligence, remotely sensed data, and human-guided workflows to support investment and planning decisions.
Medical Note Generator
Link: github.com/johnyquest7/rust_med
Dr. Johnson Thomas and I built a Tauri app for local medical note generation. The idea is that a doctor can install the app on their device and then record their conversation with their patient. After the visit, the app generates a transcript of the conversation and a conformant SOAP medical note.
The data processing is entirely local and uses a specialized LLM tailored to this exact task.
Rewriting My Website
Link: alexledger.net
I rewrote alexledger.net to better showcase my work, and I refactored it from Astro to Sveltekit.
I’m already planning to revamp the website again in the next few months. I want to incorporate interactive, graphics-heavy elements and custom shaders to show off the range of what’s possible to build on the web.
My Demos Page
I started putting up demos that I’ve made on alexledger.net/demos, so it’s easy to share ideas with prospects and clients.
My favorite is the ASCIIed video, where I took a video of myself playing pickleball and rendered it as ASCII art. This was done with a post-processing shader in Three.js.
Final Thoughts
It was a fun year for making websites! As I wrote in my previous post, I’m excited for what’s coming for websites in 2026. I’m predicting that more graphics, more interactivity, and just better websites are on the horizon. And I’m happy to be a part of that movement.
If you’re interested in building out a website that expresses your business, I’m taking on new clients! I do all the work of a big agency, but at a fraction of the price and with a more human touch. You can check out my recent work in my portfolio.
If you’re interested, please reach out at contact@alexledger.net!
Thanks to Cat Neshyba for helping with editing this post. I highly recommend Cat’s services if you’re looking for a freelance editor for Substack, blogging, short stories, fanfic, novels, and more!