I chose NextJS because it's blazing fast for developing and deploying static websites. Moreover, it makes the whole content management process very easy (you just write plain HTML). Among the many UI frameworks, I went for ChakraUI because, in my opinion, it offers the best compromise between styled components and theme customization.

For the design I drew most of my inspiration from Takuya Matsuyama's portfolio (founder of Inkdrop). I customized a lot the template of his project, simplifying it and making it fir my needs. And whoala, here I have an awesome portfolio. Template which Inspired me