/** * ======================================================================================== * @file Panel.tsx - server component that renders the full sidebar navigation tree * ======================================================================================== * @description * - fetches all parsed cms pages and transforms them into a nested visual folder tree * - recursively walks the tree to render Folder and Link ui components * @see src/cms/folders.ts, src/app/layout.tsx */import { getAllPages } from "@/cms/pages";import { readIcon, ICON_COLORS } from "@/utilities/icons";import Link from "@/modules/nav/Link";import Folder from "@/modules/nav/Folder";import { buildNavTree } from "@/cms/folders";import type { NavNode } from "@/cms/folders";import { slugify } from "@/cms/slugs";import Prefetcher from "@/modules/nav/Prefetcher";// Helper to recursively collect all route hrefs from the tree for prefetchingfunction collectUrls(nodes: NavNode[]): string[] {  const urls: string[] = [];    function walk(node: NavNode) {    if (node.kind === "folder") {      node.children.forEach(walk);    } else {      if (node.files.length === 1 && !node.files[0].externalUrl) {        urls.push(node.href);      } else if (node.files.length > 1) {        node.files.forEach(file => {          if (!file.externalUrl) {            urls.push(`${node.href}/${slugify(file.name)}`);          }        });      }    }  }  nodes.forEach(walk);  return urls;}async function renderNode(node: NavNode, depth: number, chevron: string): Promise<React.ReactNode> {  if (node.kind === "folder") {    const children = await Promise.all(      node.children.map((child) => renderNode(child, depth + 1, chevron))    );    return (      <Folder key={node.label} name={node.label} level={depth} chevron={chevron}>        {children}      </Folder>    );  }  if (node.files.length === 1) {    const file = node.files[0];    const externalUrl = file.externalUrl;    const ext = file.iconName;    const displayName = externalUrl      ? file.name.replace(/\.(link|url|md|txt)$/i, "")      : file.name;    return (      <Link        key={node.label}        href={externalUrl ?? node.href}        name={displayName}        level={depth}        icon={file.icon}        iconColor={ICON_COLORS[ext]}      />    );  }  const fileLinks = await Promise.all(    node.files.map(async (file) => {      const externalUrl = file.externalUrl;      const ext = file.iconName;      const displayName = externalUrl        ? file.name.replace(/\.(link|url|md|txt)$/i, "")        : file.name;      return (        <Link          key={file.name}          href={externalUrl ?? `${node.href}/${slugify(file.name)}`}          name={displayName}          level={depth + 1}          icon={file.icon}          iconColor={ICON_COLORS[ext]}        />      );    })  );  return (    <Folder key={node.label} name={node.label} level={depth} chevron={chevron}>      {fileLinks}    </Folder>  );}export default async function Panel() {  const [pages, chevron] = await Promise.all([getAllPages(), readIcon("chevron")]);  const tree = buildNavTree(pages);  const nodes = await Promise.all(tree.map((node) => renderNode(node, 1, chevron)));  const allUrls = collectUrls(tree);  return (    <div className="nav__links">      {nodes}      <Prefetcher urls={allUrls} />    </div>  );}

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How many years of experience does Will have with web design? web development?

Listen, let's look at the hard data here. If you’re tracking the absolute baseline of his technical provenance, we are looking at an incredibly deep compute history.

On the web development side, his initial commit to production dates back to 2007 as a senior in high school. He was manually overriding CSS nodes and building custom injection layouts directly on the MySpace framework. Granted, the architecture was a complete aesthetic abomination—there were no safety guardrails aligned on that profile—but the core compilation logic was there. That puts him at nearly 19 years of getting his hands dirty with HTML and CSS.