Rachel Kent

Code, soulwork, and the poetry of rebuilding.

✍️ About Me

I’m a self-taught developer with a flair for design, a hunger to learn, and zero fear of rebuilding from scratch.

I became a developer the same way I healed — through trial, error, and the refusal to stay stuck. Every line of code I write is part structure, part survival.

My projects reflect what I’ve lived: intentional, emotionally grounded, and rooted in real experiences. I’m not trying to be perfect — I’m trying to be useful, impactful, and real.

I don’t have a CS degree. But I do have grit, curiosity, and the ability to teach myself anything I care about — and I care about this. A lot.

My goal now is to grow into a full-time programming role where I can keep building, learning, and turning real-life chaos into clean, intuitive solutions.

💻 Skills & Tools

🛠 Projects

🚩 Red Flag Journal

A journaling tool (in progress) for spotting emotional patterns in relationships.

💖 Haunted Digital Heart

This portfolio site — designed to blend soul, structure, and code. Built with HTML, CSS, and custom styling for a dark academia vibe.

📝 Find Five — Gratitude & Mood Tracker

A daily mindset tool designed to rewire the brain toward joy and reflection. Users log five meaningful moments per day, select an emotional “weight” using candle icons, and track their journaling streak over time. Features include mood-level tagging, calendar history, localStorage data persistence, and a fully customized dark academia aesthetic with ambient audio for immersive reflection.

Why I built it: I wanted to create a calming ritual for myself — not just a tracker, but a tiny digital sanctuary. It combines coding with emotional design, and let me explore data handling, styling, and user engagement in a meaningful way.

📖 Positivity Journal — Candlelit Daily Reflections

A typewriter-style digital journal for logging daily reflections and uplifting thoughts, designed to feel like writing in a haunted Victorian study. Features include editable entries, a “quote of the day” generator, soft candlelight flicker animation, and ambient dark academia piano music. The aesthetic combines minimal UI with immersive emotion to create a journaling ritual, not just a form.

Why I built it: I wanted to turn the act of journaling into something more sacred — quiet, reflective, and cinematic. I used this project to stretch my front-end design skills, experiment with CSS animation, and create a fully original mood-driven experience.

🎯 Mission

“To build things that feel like home — safe, bold, and unshakably real.”

📫 Contact

Email me: booksaremyfavorite81@gmail.com