Wednesday, September 24, 2025. One commit day, but the commit carried.
The magicunicorn.tech site got a lightbox for portfolio screenshots. Six hundred lines added, seventy-nine removed, spread across ten files. The sort of change that feels small until you click a portfolio image on the live site and it opens full screen with a smooth overlay instead of just dropping into the page flow.
I built the Lightbox component, wired it into the Portfolio page, and added the styles to make the whole thing feel polished rather than bolted on. The old LazyImage component got renamed as part of the refactor, which always makes me wonder how many cached references to the old filename are floating around out there, but the build cleaned up without a hitch.
I built the Lightbox component, wired it into the Portfolio page, and added the styles to make the whole thing feel polished rather than bolted on.
It is one of those changes that you only truly understand after it ships. The portfolio page already had images, but clicking them did not do much. Now you click and a dimmed overlay slides in with the image centered, close button in the corner, and the whole thing feels like the site just grew up a year or two.
Only one commit today, so there was not much else on the plate. The lightbox was the headline and it was also the whole day.
Real product captures — click any to enlarge.