CV tuning and interests cleanup

data.json

@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@
     {
       "title": "UI Performance & Bootstrap Optimization",
       "description": [
-        "Analyzed UI app bootstrap performance, driving improvements that gained 28% speed improvement.",
-        "Eliminated redundant network requests by introducing TanStack Query network caching.",
-        "Defined tiered JavaScript dependency loading mechanism for on-demand toolkit loading."
+        "Analyzed UI app bootstrap performance, driving improvements that gained 28% speed improvement. Eliminated redundant network requests by introducing TanStack Query network caching. Defined tiered JavaScript dependency loading mechanism for on-demand toolkit loading."
       ],
       "date": "2025 – 2026"
     },
@@ -53,27 +51,18 @@
     {
       "title": "UI Testing Strategy & Architecture",
       "description": [
-        "Led senior QA engineers in defining and executing the long-term UI testing architecture strategy across platform teams.",
-        "Established automated test suites, quality guardrails, and release visibility workflows to elevate testing standards across UI platform releases."
+        "Led senior QA engineers in defining and executing the long-term UI testing architecture strategy across platform teams. Established automated test suites and quality guardrails to elevate testing standards."
       ],
       "date": "2021 – 2023"
     },
     {
       "title": "Pluggable Tax Calculation Engine",
       "description": [
-        "Architected and led the development of a pluggable tax calculation engine for NetSuite cloud ERP.",
-        "Coordinated technical strategy across 20+ software engineers in 4 squads, standardizing global tax calculation pipelines."
+        "Architected and led the development of a pluggable tax calculation engine for NetSuite cloud ERP. Coordinated technical strategy across 20+ software engineers in 4 squads, standardizing global tax calculation pipelines."
       ],
       "date": "2017 – 2020"
     }
   ],
-  "outside_work": [
-    "Mandolin",
-    "Synthwave",
-    "Electronics",
-    "3D Printing",
-    "Mountain Biking"
-  ],
   "cv": {
     "experience": [
       {
@@ -175,5 +164,37 @@
       }
     ],
     "philosophy": "I design platform layers that stay out of the way while enabling everything else. Quiet infrastructure. Measurable value."
+  },
+  "interests": [
+    {
+      "name": "Mandolin",
+      "caption": "Octave mandolin is my instrument of choice. Wide range of tones, pleasant sound. Great way to relax your mind, explore melodies and harmonies.",
+      "image": null
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "Electronics tinkering",
+      "caption": "Building a useful device from scratch. Retrofitting modern brains into a broken vintage shell. Electronics is the magic that makes things alive.",
+      "image": null
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "Synthwave",
+      "caption": "Neon-filled nostalgia. Fun to create, relaxing to listen to it.",
+      "image": "interests/synthwave.png"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "3D Printing & Design",
+      "caption": "Designing and printing custom parts that serve a purpose. Unique designs, useful accessories, toys or just repairs.",
+      "image": null
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "Mountain Biking",
+      "caption": "Going places under your own power. Exploring forests, trails and nature where cars aren't allowed.",
+      "image": null
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "RC Cars",
+      "caption": "Rock crawlers, construction trucks, military vehicles. Building a custom offroad course in the garden to trial them all.",
+      "image": null
     }
+  ]
 }

index.php

@@ -21,30 +21,20 @@ $nav_links = [
 $highlights = $cvData['highlights'] ?? [];
 
 /**
- * Sourced Interests Showcase (from filesystem)
+ * Sourced Interests Showcase (from data.json)
  */
 $interests_showcase = [];
-$interests_base = __DIR__ . '/interests';
-if (is_dir($interests_base)) {
-    $folders = glob($interests_base . '/*', GLOB_ONLYDIR);
-    if ($folders) {
-        foreach ($folders as $folder) {
-            $config_path = $folder . '/interest.json';
-            $config = [];
-            if (file_exists($config_path)) {
-                $config = json_decode(file_get_contents($config_path), true);
-            }
-            $img_file = $config['image'] ?? 'image.png';
-            $has_image = file_exists($folder . '/' . $img_file);
-
+if (!empty($cvData['interests'])) {
+    foreach ($cvData['interests'] as $item) {
+        $img = $item['image'] ?? null;
+        $has_image = $img && file_exists(__DIR__ . '/' . $img);
         $interests_showcase[] = [
-                'name'    => $config['name'] ?? basename($folder),
-                'image'   => $has_image ? 'interests/' . basename($folder) . '/' . $img_file : null,
-                'caption' => $config['caption'] ?? ''
+            'name'    => $item['name'] ?? '',
+            'image'   => $has_image ? $img : null,
+            'caption' => $item['caption'] ?? ''
         ];
     }
 }
-}
 
 $site_url = "https://www.dejvino.cz/";
 $site_title = $name;

interests/1/interest.json

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "Mandolin",
-    "image": "image.png",
-    "caption": "Octave mandolin is my instrument of choice. Wide range of tones, pleasant sound. Great way to relax your mind, explore melodies and harmonies."
-}

interests/3/interest.json

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "Electronics tinkering",
-    "image": "image.png",
-    "caption": "Building a useful device from scratch. Retrofitting modern brains into a broken vintage shell. Electronics is the magic that makes things alive."
-}

interests/4/interest.json

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "Synthwave",
-    "image": "image.png",
-    "caption": "Neon-filled nostalgia. Fun to create, relaxing to listen to it."
-}

interests/5/interest.json

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "3D Printing",
-    "image": "image.png",
-    "caption": ""
-}

interests/6/interest.json

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "Mountain Biking",
-    "image": "image.png",
-    "caption": ""
-}

interests/7/interest.json

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "RC Cars",
-    "image": "image.png",
-    "caption": "Rock crawlers, construction trucks, military vehicles. There is a fun challenge awaiting an RC car on every corner."
-}