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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<head>
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  <title>About | Costope</title>

  <link rel="icon" href="assets/website-icon.png" type="image/x-icon" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />

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    href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Poppins:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap"
    rel="stylesheet"/>

  <!-- Navbar -->
  <script src="navbar.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <a href="#main" class="skip-link">Skip to content</a>

  <div class="container">

    <main id="main">
      <!-- PAGE HEAD -->
      <section class="page-head" aria-label="About intro">
        <p class="kicker">About</p>
        <h1 class="title">More about me</h1>
        <p class="page-sub">
          I'm Gustav, known online as <strong>Costope</strong> — a developer from Hamburg, Germany.
          I write code, tinker with hardware, and generally can't leave a system alone until I understand how it works.
        </p>
      </section>

      <section class="section" aria-label="Who I am">
        <div class="section-head">
          <p class="kicker">Background</p>
          <h2 class="section-title">Who I am</h2>
          <p class="section-sub">
            A bit more context than the homepage timeline — who I am, not just what I've built.
          </p>
        </div>

        <div class="profile-split">
          <div class="profile-avatar" aria-hidden="true">C</div>

          <div class="profile-body">
            <p class="profile-text">
              Coding is a playground for me; I can build whatever I want digitally. I avoid leaving anything unfinished,
              so even minor mistakes cannot hide from me. I'd rather spend extra time getting something right instead of publishing an unfinished project.
            </p>

            <div class="tags" style="justify-content: flex-start; margin-top: 14px;">
              <span class="tag">Creative</span>
              <span class="tag">Calm</span>
              <span class="tag">Perfectionist</span>
            </div>

            <blockquote class="quote-block">
              <span class="quote-mark" aria-hidden="true">“</span>
              I don't run out of ideas — I run out of time to build them all.
              <span class="quote-mark" aria-hidden="true">”</span>
            </blockquote>
          </div>
        </div>
      </section>

      <!-- SPEC SHEET -->
      <section class="section" aria-label="Setup and specs">
        <div class="section-head">
          <p class="kicker">Beyond the code</p>
          <h2 class="section-title">The spec sheet</h2>
          <p class="section-sub">
            Software is most of it, but not all of it — here's the rest of the stack.
          </p>
        </div>

        <dl class="spec-sheet">
          <div class="spec-row">
            <dt class="spec-key">OS</dt>
            <dd class="spec-val">Modded Windows 10, dual-booted with Linux</dd>
          </div>
          <div class="spec-row">
            <dt class="spec-key">Hobbies</dt>
            <dd class="spec-val">Guitar, trumpet, dancing, reading, gym</dd>
          </div>
          <div class="spec-row">
            <dt class="spec-key">Habit</dt>
            <dd class="spec-val">Customizing & automating my own systems</dd>
          </div>
          <div class="spec-row">
            <dt class="spec-key">Community</dt>
            <dd class="spec-val">Active in dev communities & networking</dd>
          </div>
          <div class="spec-row">
            <dt class="spec-key">Goal</dt>
            <dd class="spec-val">IT specialist training, then specializing further</dd>
          </div>
          <div class="spec-row">
            <dt class="spec-key">Based in</dt>
            <dd class="spec-val">Hamburg, Germany</dd>
          </div>
        </dl>
      </section>

      <!-- FEATURED PROJECT: VALTRO -->
      <section class="section" aria-label="Featured project: Valtro">
        <div class="section-head">
          <p class="kicker">What I'm proud of</p>
          <h2 class="section-title">Valtro</h2>
          <p class="section-sub">
            A compound interest calculator I built because the tool I wanted didn't exist yet.
          </p>
        </div>

        <div class="project-spotlight">
          <p class="profile-text">
            I wanted to see how long it'd take to hit certain financial goals, but couldn't find a
            simple calculator for it — so I built one myself.
          </p>
          <p class="profile-text">
            It's a PWA — HTML, CSS, JavaScript — built to skip the App Store's bureaucracy and cost while
            still feeling fast and installable. The name comes from "Vault," and the
            <strong>.app</strong> domain signals it's a real working tool, not a static page.
          </p>

          <div class="tags" style="justify-content: flex-start; margin-top: 18px;">
            <span class="tag">PWA</span>
            <span class="tag">HTML / CSS / JS</span>
            <span class="tag">Free & ad-free</span>
            <span class="tag">Launching soon</span>
          </div>

          <div class="cta" style="justify-content: flex-start; margin-top: 20px;">
            <a href="https://valtro.app" class="btn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Visit valtro.app</a>
            <a href="https://github.com/Costope" class="btn btn-ghost" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Code on GitHub <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" fill="currentColor" class="bi bi-github" viewBox="0 0 16 16">
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      </section>

      <!-- CTA -->
      <section class="section" aria-label="Get in touch">
        <div class="section-head">
          <p class="kicker">Say hi</p>
          <h2 class="section-title">Want to build something or just chat?</h2>
          <p class="section-sub">
            Check out what I've been working on, or find me on socials down below.
          </p>
        </div>

        <div class="cta">
          <a href="projects.html" class="btn">View My Projects</a>
          <a href="blog.html" class="btn btn-ghost">Read My Blog</a>
        </div>
      </section>

      <!-- SOCIAL -->
      <section class="social" aria-label="Social links">
        <div class="social-head">
          <p class="kicker">Links</p>
          <h2 class="section-title">Find me online</h2>
        </div>

        <div class="social-row">
          <a class="social-link" href="https://discord.com/users/1079849117452349440" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
            <img src="assets/discord.png" alt="Discord" class="socialicons" />
            <span>Discord</span>
          </a>

          <a class="social-link" href="https://instagram.com/costope21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
            <img src="assets/instagram.png" alt="Instagram" class="socialicons" />
            <span>Instagram</span>
          </a>

          <a class="social-link" href="https://github.com/Costope" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
            <img src="assets/github.png" alt="GitHub" class="socialicons" style="border-radius: 999px;" />
            <span>GitHub</span>
          </a>
        </div>
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