The first screen of a personal site has a strange job. It has to introduce a person without turning that person into a pitch deck. That is why this version starts with the identity mark and very little else.
The scroll is doing a small piece of social work. It lets the visitor choose to keep going before the site asks them to pick a path. The navigation appears only after that choice, which makes the page feel quieter than a normal header-first layout.
Keep the opening still
A still opening page can be more confident than an animated one. Centering the mark, giving it room, and keeping the background warm but plain lets the site say enough without narrating itself.
The trick will be resisting decoration too early. The sidebar, posts, and page structure can gain detail over time, but the first viewport should keep behaving like a clear front door.