diff --git a/src/common/git.php b/src/common/git.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90b239d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/common/git.php
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+<?php
+function getResumeReleases() {
+    $curl = curl_init();
+    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://git.clortox.com/api/v1/repos/tyler/Resume/releases?per_page=1&access_token=" . getenv("GITEA_TOKEN"));
+    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+
+    $result = curl_exec($curl);
+    if(!$result){
+        header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
+        die();
+    }
+
+    curl_close($curl);
+
+    return $result;
+
+}
+
+function getRecentProjects() {
+    $curl = curl_init();
+    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://git.clortox.com/api/v1/user/repos?page=1&limit=100&access_token=" . getenv("GITEA_TOKEN"));
+    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+
+    $result = curl_exec($curl);
+    if(!$result){
+        header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
+        die();
+    }
+
+    curl_close($curl);
+    //now we need to parse out the results into a nice array containing the
+    //5 most recently modified projects
+
+    $parsed = json_decode($result, true);
+
+    $ret = array();
+
+    foreach($parsed as $item){
+        array_push($ret, $item);
+    }
+
+    usort($ret, "datecmp");
+    return $ret;
+
+}
+
+function datecmp($lhs, $rhs) {
+    return $lhs["updated_at"] < $rhs["updated_at"];
+}
+
+
+?>
diff --git a/src/index.css b/src/index.css
index 82ba276..c8d2a3f 100644
--- a/src/index.css
+++ b/src/index.css
@@ -31,6 +31,27 @@
     text-decoration: none;
 }
 
+.git-clickable-div {
+    display: block;
+    width: calc(100% - 10px - 3px);
+    height: auto;
+    text-decoration: underline 0.15em rgba(255,255,255,0);
+    transition: 300ms;
+    border: dashed;
+    border-radius: 5px;
+    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
+    margin: 5px;
+}
+.git-clickable-div p {
+    margin: 15px 5px;
+}
+
+.git-clickable-div:hover {
+    text-decoration: underline 0.15em rgba(255,255,255,1);
+    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,1);
+
+}
+
 .single-column {
     grid-template-columns: 1fr !important;
 }
@@ -51,7 +72,6 @@
     align-content: center;
     justify-content: center;
     justify-items: center;
-    align-items: center;
     grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
     grid-template-rows: 1fr;
 }
@@ -62,6 +82,12 @@
     margin: 5px;
 }
 
+.index-column {
+    display: grid;
+    grid-template-rows: 10em 1fr;
+
+}
+
 @media only screen and (max-width: 768px){
     .index-item {
         grid-template-columns: 1fr;
diff --git a/src/index.php b/src/index.php
index 98f6687..d53ab00 100644
--- a/src/index.php
+++ b/src/index.php
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 <html lang="en">
 <head>
     <?php include 'common/include.php' ?>
+    <?php include 'common/git.php' ?>
+
     <title>Tyler Perkins - Home</title>
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
 </head>
@@ -20,19 +22,38 @@
                     $home_addr = gethostbyname("gluttony.clortox.com");
                     if($remote_addr == $home_addr)
                         echo "<p>Hello from within the home network!</p>"
-
-
                 ?>
             </div>
         <!--</a>-->
     </div>
     <div class="centered">
         <div class="index-item soft-background articles-box">
-            <div>
-                <h3>Articles</h3>
+            <div class="index-column">
+                <h3>Projects</h3>
+                <div>
+                <?php
+                    $result = getRecentProjects();
+                    array_splice($result, 6, -1);
+                    foreach($result as $item){
+                        if($item["private"])
+                            continue;
+
+                        $name = $item["name"];
+                        $url = $item["html_url"];
+                        $lang = $item["language"];
+                        $description = $item["description"];
+
+                        //build out the html
+                        echo '<a class="git-clickable-div" href="' . $url . '">';
+                        echo '<p>' . $name . ' - ' . $description . '</p>';
+                        echo '</a>';
+                    }
+                ?>
+                </div>
             </div>
-            <div>
-                <p>To be implemented...</p>
+            <div class="index-column">
+                <h3>Articles</h3>
+                <p>To be implemented</p>
             </div>
         </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/src/resume.php b/src/resume.php
index 5ae086f..d74cc35 100644
--- a/src/resume.php
+++ b/src/resume.php
@@ -1,17 +1,8 @@
 <?php
 
-$curl = curl_init();
-curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://git.clortox.com/api/v1/repos/tyler/Resume/releases?per_page=1&access_token=" . getenv("GITEA_TOKEN"));
-curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+include 'common/git.php';
 
-$result = curl_exec($curl);
-if(!$result){
-    header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
-    die();
-}
-
-curl_close($curl);
-$parsed = json_decode($result, true);
+$parsed = json_decode(getResumeReleases(), true);
 
 $url = $parsed[0]["assets"][0]["browser_download_url"];
 if(!$url){
