Systems in Motion — Portfolio V1

The runtime, driven by you

V1 decided two things before it rendered anything: how much GPU work the machine could afford, and whether you had to sit through the intro. Set the URL and the machine; watch which gate decides.

portfolio.jdenandro.com/ (no parameters)

THE LADDER, IN THE SOURCE’S ORDER

1. ?quality=high|medium|low|nonepassed
2. ?webgl=offpassed
3. no webgl2 or webgl contextpassed
4. software rasteriser and not ?webgl=forcepassed
5. navigator.connection.saveDatapassed
6. (pointer: coarse) or viewport < 900pxpassed
7. cores ≥ 8 and memory ≥ 8→ high
8. cores ≥ 4—
9. otherwise—

Four switches, and why each one exists

?skip=1

Skips the boot sequence entirely.

Every QA script sets it. An intro that a test has to sit through is an intro that gets deleted from the test.

?quality=high|medium|low|none

Pins the render tier, bypassing detection.

Look-dev, and comparing four tiers on one machine without owning four machines.

?webgl=off

Mounts no canvas at all. DOM art direction only.

Proving the site is readable without WebGL, which the a11y run asserts on every pass.

?webgl=force

Overrides the software-rasteriser refusal.

Headless browsers render through SwiftShader, which detection correctly refuses — so without this there is no screenshot of the real scene.

The nine scenes

One persistent WebGL corridor, nine scenes over it, and every word in real DOM underneath — rule one of three was that nothing readable existed only in the canvas.

1. 01Signal
2. 02Selected Systems
3. 03How I Work
4. 04Web & Commerce
5. 05Experience
6. 06Capability Map
7. 07Off Duty
8. 08After Hours
9. 09Contact

A capture of the full seventeen-second scroll exists and is kept in this repository at docs/v1-baseline/v1-homepage-scroll.webm, where it served as the baseline the V2 rewrite was audited against. It is not published on this page. The scroll passes through V1’s Experience scene, which names an employer beside a job title — where that name is allowed to appear, and only there. It is never placed beside the systems those repositories hold, several of which hold salaries and national IDs. Embedding the capture on a page about those systems would collapse that separation for the sake of seventeen seconds of video, so it stays out.

What is verified here, and what is not

V1 published an editorial rule set — no metric that a repository does not actually measure — and this page inherits it. That rule applies to the page’s claims about itself first.

• The two decision ladders on this page are V1's

  Ported from src/lib/quality.ts and BootSequence.shouldBoot at tag v1.0-production. The tests below re-assert every gate.

  VERIFIED

• The source is recoverable

  git checkout v1.0-production. The tag is in this repository; it is not a screenshot of one.

  VERIFIED

• A capture of V1 running exists

  docs/v1-baseline/v1-homepage-scroll.webm, taken from the live V1 site and committed on 28 Aug 2026, before a line of V2 was written, as the baseline the rewrite was audited against.

  VERIFIED

• That capture is published on this page

  It is not, and the section above says why: the scroll passes through V1's Experience scene, where an employer is named beside a job title. That name belongs beside a job title and nowhere near the systems these repositories describe. Seventeen seconds of video is not worth collapsing the separation.

  NOT VERIFIED

• V1 is reachable at a URL

  It is not. portfolio.jdenandro.com served V1 until 29 Aug 2026 and has served V2 since. Pointing a visitor there would show them this site and call it the old one.

  NOT VERIFIED

• The WebGL scene renders on this page

  It does not. Nine scenes, GSAP, Lenis and three.js are not re-hosted here — that would be a second copy of a site to maintain. What is portable is the decision layer, and that is what runs.

  NOT VERIFIED

• The numbers above were re-derived

  Each one names the command that produced it. None was carried over from an older document.

  VERIFIED

V1 is not linked from this page. Its address, portfolio.jdenandro.com, has served this site since 29 August 2026 — so a link labelled “see V1” would show you V2 and call it the predecessor. An archive that says so is worth more than a link that is quietly wrong.