diff --git a/app/about/page.tsx b/app/about/page.tsx
index d0a1161..8f551cc 100644
--- a/app/about/page.tsx
+++ b/app/about/page.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-import Hero from "@/components/content/Hero";
 import type { Metadata } from "next";
+import { IconBrandLinkedinFilled, IconMailFilled } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+import Hero from "@/components/content/Hero";
+import SectionLabel from "@/components/layout/SectionLabel";
+import AccentLink from "@/components/navigation/AccentLink";
+import GiteaIcon from "@/components/icons/GiteaIcon";
+import Tooltip from "@/components/ui/Tooltip";
+import { colors, education, timeline } from "@/constants";
 
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: "About — Angel Mankel",
@@ -7,6 +13,91 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
 
 export default function AboutPage() {
   return (
-    <Hero label="About"/>
+    <div className="space-y-14">
+      <Hero label="About">
+        <div className="space-y-5 text-[19px] leading-[1.65]">
+          <p>
+            I came up through healthcare IT — help desk, then Salesforce
+            administration, then software engineering. A path that taught me
+            to translate between operations, design, and engineering without
+            losing the thread.
+          </p>
+          <p>
+            These days I write React and TypeScript for production, lead
+            component-library work, and spend a lot of time in Claude Code —
+            custom slash commands, MCP integrations, agent workflows. The
+            AI-tooling layer is reshaping how I work across the stack.
+          </p>
+          <p>
+            Based in Arizona, looking for remote-US roles where shipping
+            frontend product and building AI tooling around it are both
+            first-class. Bonus points for teams that take design seriously
+            and don&apos;t hand things off at every layer.
+          </p>
+        </div>
+      </Hero>
+
+      <section className="space-y-4">
+        <SectionLabel label="Education" />
+        <ul className="space-y-2">
+          {education.map((row) => (
+            <li key={row.span} className="flex gap-2 text-sm">
+              <span className="w-36 shrink-0 text-neutral-500">
+                {row.span}
+              </span>
+              <span className="text-neutral-200">{row.degree} · {row.location}</span>
+            </li>
+          ))}
+        </ul>
+      </section>
+
+      <section className="space-y-4">
+        <SectionLabel label="Timeline" />
+        <ul className="space-y-2">
+          {timeline.map((row) => (
+            <li key={row.span} className="flex gap-2 text-sm">
+              <span className="w-36 shrink-0 text-neutral-500">
+                {row.span}
+              </span>
+              <span className="text-neutral-200">{row.role}</span>
+            </li>
+          ))}
+        </ul>
+      </section>
+
+      <AccentLink link="/cv.pdf" label="Download CV (PDF)" />
+
+      <nav aria-label="Contact" className="flex gap-5 text-neutral-300">
+        <Tooltip text="Email">
+          <a
+            href="mailto:angelmankel@gmail.com"
+            aria-label="Email"
+            className={`hover:text-neutral-200 rounded-md hover:bg-[${colors.accent}] p-1 transition-colors duration-200`}
+          >
+            <IconMailFilled size={32} />
+          </a>
+        </Tooltip>
+        <Tooltip text="LinkedIn">
+          <a
+            href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-mankel-0616aa132/"
+            target="_blank"
+            rel="noreferrer"
+            aria-label="LinkedIn"
+            className={`hover:text-neutral-200 rounded-md hover:bg-[${colors.accent}] p-1 transition-colors duration-200`}
+          >
+            <IconBrandLinkedinFilled size={32} />
+          </a>
+        </Tooltip>
+        <Tooltip text="Gitea">
+          <a
+            href="#"
+            aria-label="Gitea"
+            className={`hover:text-neutral-200 rounded-md hover:bg-[${colors.accent}] p-1 transition-colors duration-200`}
+          >
+            <GiteaIcon size={32} />
+          </a>
+        </Tooltip>
+      </nav>
+    </div>
   );
 }
diff --git a/app/layout.tsx b/app/layout.tsx
index 1c00a0f..b63c838 100644
--- a/app/layout.tsx
+++ b/app/layout.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import "./globals.css";
 import Header from "@/components/layout/Header";
 import Footer from "@/components/layout/Footer";
 import Container from "@/components/layout/Container";
+import Cursor from "@/components/ui/Cursor";
 
 const inter = Inter({
   variable: "--font-inter",
@@ -29,9 +30,10 @@ export default function RootLayout({
   return (
     <html
       lang="en"
-      className={`${inter.variable} ${instrumentSerif.variable} h-full antialiased`}
+      className={`${inter.variable} ${instrumentSerif.variable} h-full antialiased scrollbar-track-transparent scrollbar-thumb-neutral-700`}
     >
       <body className="min-h-full flex flex-col font-sans">
+        {/* <Cursor /> */}
         <Header />
         <Container>{children}</Container>
         <Footer />
diff --git a/app/page.tsx b/app/page.tsx
index f162d24..68be072 100644
--- a/app/page.tsx
+++ b/app/page.tsx
@@ -1,49 +1,22 @@
 import Hero from "@/components/content/Hero";
 import Testimonials from "@/components/content/Testimonials";
+import RotatingWord from "@/components/content/RotatingWord";
 import SectionLabel from "@/components/layout/SectionLabel";
 import AccentLink from "@/components/navigation/AccentLink";
-
-type Testimonial = {
-  name: string;
-  title: string;
-  avatar?: string;
-  quote: string;
-};
-
-const testimonialsData: Testimonial[] = [
-  {
-    name: "Sarah Chen",
-    title: "Senior Software Engineer · Patient Platforms",
-    quote:
-      "Working with Angel was the first time I saw someone treat Claude Code as a real engineering tool instead of a toy. He’d built half a workflow before the rest of us figured out it was possible.",
-  },
-  {
-    name: "Marcus Whitfield",
-    title: "Staff Frontend Engineer",
-    quote:
-      "He owned the component library end-to-end and ran the migration without breaking a single screen. Quiet shipper — you only notice his work when you go looking for it.",
-  },
-  {
-    name: "Priya Anand",
-    title: "Product Designer",
-    quote:
-      "Angel is the rare engineer who actually reads designs and asks questions when something feels off. Half my polish budget got returned to me on the projects he was on.",
-  },
-  {
-    name: "Daniel Okafor",
-    title: "Engineering Manager",
-    quote:
-      "He’s at his best when the problem doesn’t fit cleanly into one stack. I’d hand him an ambiguous brief and a week later he’d come back with a working prototype and a plan.",
-  },
-];
+import ProjectCard from "@/components/content/ProjectCard";
+import { testimonials, projects } from "@/constants";
 
 export default function HomePage() {
   return (
     <div>
       <Hero label="Angel Mankel">
-        <div className="space-y-5">
+        <div className="space-y-5 mb-4">
           <p className="font-serif italic text-3xl leading-[1.3]">
-            I’m a creator at heart.
+            I&apos;m{" "}
+            <RotatingWord
+              items={["a developer", "a creative", "a tinkerer"]}
+            />
+            .
           </p>
 
           <p className="text-[19px] leading-[1.65]">
@@ -52,16 +25,37 @@ export default function HomePage() {
           </p>
 
           <p className="text-[19px] leading-[1.65]">
-            I’m the kind of engineer who picks up whatever the problem needs and
-            keeps digging — into the code, and into the people it’s meant for.
-            The throughline isn’t a stack, it’s the curiosity.
+            I&apos;m the kind of engineer who picks up whatever the problem needs and
+            keeps digging — into the code, and into the people it&apos;s meant for.
+            The throughline isn&apos;t a stack, it&apos;s the curiosity.
           </p>
         </div>
+
+        <div>
+          <AccentLink label="About Me" link="/about" />
+        </div>
       </Hero>
-      <SectionLabel label="Selected Projects" />
-      <AccentLink label="See all projects" link="/projects" />
-      <SectionLabel label="What people say" />
-      <Testimonials items={testimonialsData} />
+      
+      {/* Projects */}
+      <div className="mt-20">
+        <SectionLabel label="Selected Projects" />
+
+        {projects.slice(0,3).map((project, index) => (
+          <ProjectCard key={index} {...project} />
+        ))}
+
+        <div className="mt-5">
+          <AccentLink label="See all projects" link="/projects" />
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      
+      {/* Testimonials */}
+      <div className="mt-20">
+        <SectionLabel label="What people say" />
+        <div className="mt-5">
+          <Testimonials items={testimonials} />
+        </div>
+      </div>
     </div>
   );
 }
diff --git a/app/projects/page.tsx b/app/projects/page.tsx
index c29dada..b93900f 100644
--- a/app/projects/page.tsx
+++ b/app/projects/page.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import Hero from "@/components/content/Hero";
 import type { Metadata } from "next";
+import ProjectCard from "@/components/content/ProjectCard";
+import { projects } from "@/constants";
 
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: "Work — Angel Mankel",
@@ -7,6 +9,14 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
 
 export default function ProjectsPage() {
   return (
-    <Hero label="Projects" subtitle="Selected work, written as postmortems." />
+    <>
+      <div className="mb-15">
+        <Hero label="Projects" subtitle="Selected work, written as postmortems." />
+      </div>
+
+      {projects.map((project, index) => (
+        <ProjectCard key={index} {...project} />
+      ))}
+    </>
   );
 }
diff --git a/app/uses/page.tsx b/app/uses/page.tsx
index 6e332a7..d54dee7 100644
--- a/app/uses/page.tsx
+++ b/app/uses/page.tsx
@@ -1,12 +1,77 @@
-import Hero from "@/components/content/Hero";
 import type { Metadata } from "next";
+import Hero from "@/components/content/Hero";
+import SectionLabel from "@/components/layout/SectionLabel";
 
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: "Uses — Angel Mankel",
 };
 
+type Section =
+  | { label: string; kind: "list"; items: string[] }
+  | { label: string; kind: "prose"; paragraphs: string[] };
+
+const sections: Section[] = [
+  {
+    label: "Hardware",
+    kind: "list",
+    items: [
+      "Custom desktop — i9-12900H, 32GB RAM, Intel Iris Xe",
+      "Nobara Linux 43 · KDE Plasma 6 · Wayland",
+      "Headphones / keyboard / monitor — placeholder",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Editor & Shell",
+    kind: "list",
+    items: [
+      "VS Code with a personal extension pack — placeholder",
+      "Bash / zsh — placeholder for shell",
+      "JetBrains Mono as the editor font",
+      "Theme — placeholder",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "AI Workflow",
+    kind: "prose",
+    paragraphs: [
+      "Claude Code is the daily driver — custom slash commands, MCP servers wired into my editor, and agent workflows that handle the repeat work so I can stay in the design problem.",
+      "Placeholder paragraph two — name a specific workflow and the time it saves.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Self-hosting",
+    kind: "list",
+    items: [
+      "Bare-metal home server, exposed to the internet through Traefik",
+      "This site lives on it — Next.js standalone build, no managed host",
+      "Other services — placeholder",
+    ],
+  },
+];
+
 export default function UsesPage() {
   return (
-    <Hero label="Uses" subtitle="Tools and technologies I use in my work."/>
+    <div className="space-y-14">
+      <Hero label="Uses" subtitle="What I reach for daily." />
+
+      {sections.map((section) => (
+        <section key={section.label} className="space-y-4">
+          <SectionLabel label={section.label} />
+          {section.kind === "list" ? (
+            <ul className="space-y-2 text-[15px] leading-[1.65] text-neutral-200">
+              {section.items.map((item) => (
+                <li key={item}>{item}</li>
+              ))}
+            </ul>
+          ) : (
+            <div className="space-y-4 text-[15px] leading-[1.65] text-neutral-200">
+              {section.paragraphs.map((p) => (
+                <p key={p}>{p}</p>
+              ))}
+            </div>
+          )}
+        </section>
+      ))}
+    </div>
   );
 }