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How the tools on this site get built — AI agents, automation pipelines, and the engineering decisions behind them.

August 30, 2026

• nextjs
• ai
• meta

Why I'm Building My Portfolio Like a Product

Most portfolios are brochures. alishanofficial.com is a workbench — live tools, real data, and the engineering decisions behind them, documented as I go.

August 30, 2026

• nextjs
• xyflow
• react-flow
• ai-agents

Building an n8n-Style Workflow Visualizer in Next.js 15

How I built the interactive agent workflow canvas on this site — @xyflow/react v12, custom nodes, a detail panel, and the two things that break React Flow if you forget them.

August 30, 2026

• nextjs
• recharts
• openrouter
• ai

Building an Honest AI Model Dashboard

How I built the live AI model comparison dashboard on this site — OpenRouter pricing, manually curated benchmarks, and the hard rule: N/A instead of fabricated numbers.