Acknowledgements

The best things come in small packages

(or bundle sizes!)

Gatsby JS is the first library that deserves a special mention — it is the framework with which this page is built! Gatsby allowed me to easily make server-side rendered pages with React. And it was a cinch to use it with Github Pages, too. Thus, I got all the benefits of React in a website that I can still host for free.
However you feel about the look of this website, I recommend checking out
Material UI. This is a massive, open-source library of well-made, reusable components that can immediately give your website the clean, professional style of Google's Material Design. Material UI was easily the biggest timesaver in this project, and I have never been disappointed by it. It looks great, it works great, and it's easy to use. And their documentation is fantastic, too.
The
Masonic library for React was another one of the most important additions. Without it, I wouldn't have been able to make my skill cards be displayed in a lovely Masonry format (it looked like a disaster when they were all on one row, trust me).
There is only one translations library that I've ever used with React, and that is
i18next. That is because this one works so well, that I've never even needed to look at any other ones. Massive props to the team working on this!
Last but not least, thanks a lot to
Lodash. Without you, JavaScript development would have never been the same.

A picture is worth a thousand words

(and a design is worth a thousand lines of code)

The wonderful collection of round country flags that I used throughout this website can be found at this
Flaticon link, apparently made by Freepik.
Speaking of
Freepik, I also have to thank them for their fantastic collection of story SVG's. My favorite is the Rafiki style. A selection of those Rafiki images are used for the images that you can see on this acknowledgements page.

To see far, stand on the shoulders of giants

(and search for open-source)

My sincerest thanks to the creator of
HTML5UP, for his fantastic collection of free, beautiful and tremendously detailed HTML templates. I've been using these since my earliest days of web development, and can't think of any other resource quite like it. His Photon template was one of the primary sources of inspiration for this site's style.
Two other developers who I should mention are Amruth Pillai and Raymond Ware. They've generously shared their Gatsby portfolios on the Gatsby showcase page, and I drew heavily from their sites for inspiration. With Amruth in particular, who kindly made his code publicly available, I also reused many of his components.