nickcharneykaye.com
Personal Website, 2026
- Role
- Identity & engineering
- Target
- One page that answers who is this, what does he do, and how do I reach him before the first scroll
- Constraints
- 2026 · one screen · one serif, one photograph, one button — nothing animates and nothing chases the visitor · the encrypted door is a first-class citizen rather than a footnote · and the identity has to be recognizably the same hand as the printed card
- Force fielded
- Nick Charney Kaye — identity and engineering, for himself
- Time-to-dispatch
- Live at nickcharneykaye.com, January 2026
- Result
- A live personal site carrying the golden-spiral mark, a hacker-attitude epigraph, the three current hats, a contact block with résumé, phone, email and PGP, and exactly one ask: schedule a consultation
- Principal
- Outright Mental (self-directed — the operator's own site)
The studio’s operator finally built himself the website he’d build for a client: one page that answers who is this, what does he do, and how do I reach him before the first scroll — live at nickcharneykaye.com.
It opens with an epigraph instead of a pitch:
“The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.” — The Hacker Attitude
That’s the same essay the studio manifesto plants its flag on — we’re hackers — quoted here at the top of the professional surface, because the professional surface and the studio are the same person.
What’s on the page
The bill: Operator, Outright Mental — a life of building interactive media, hard skills from typography to C++, leadership honed across hundreds of projects.
Current hats: directs Fever Tilt and Conversation Simulator at this studio; inventor of XJ music; Program Technical Lead for FIFA World Cup ’26 incident response at TKO.
Contact: operator datasheet download, phone, email, PGP — the encrypted door is a first-class citizen, not a footnote — plus LinkedIn, GitHub, and X.
The ask: one button. Schedule a consultation.
Craft notes
The design bet is restraint: white field, one serif, one photograph, the spiral doing quiet duty as both logo and layout grid. Where the studio’s own site wears the Mental Roger flag, the personal site wears the construction lines — defiance and discipline, the two registers of the same practice. Nothing animates, nothing chases you, and the highest-contrast object on the page is the one thing the visitor is there to do.
Being fully present with one thing at a time, per the manifesto — applied to a homepage. One screen, one epigraph, one button. The rest is résumé.
Proof: nickcharneykaye.com — live now.
