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This website was first published in the fall of 2010. It was built on a self-hosted server using WordPress. It’s gone through several iterations over the years as a blog and portfolio, and I’ve rebuilt it a few times. I designed and built the current version myself with a focus on minimizing its carbon footprint. I’m a bit proud to have done this before vibe coding with LLMs was a thing.

Everything is published on Codeberg if you’d like to look around.

Design

The theme is inspired by antique field guides and paper notebooks, and designed to showcase text and code on digital screens. The color palette is loosely based on Flexoki by Steph Ango, particularly for accent colors and code highlighting. The biggest difference is in the gray scale. I created a custom neutral range with less saturation in the backgrounds, which I find gentler on the eyes.

Typography

All fonts are self-hosted for privacy and performance. Body copy and headings use Source Serif by Frank Grießhammer. UI elements are set in Inter by Rasmus Andersson. Code and monospace accents use IBM Plex Mono.

Technologies

I optimized the site for performance. I use Jekyll to generate static files and deploy with statichost. Images are served by Cloudinary.

To keep things lightweight, I built the theme with Tailwind CSS and used vanilla JavaScript instead of heavy libraries. Fonts are subsets created with google-webfonts-helper by Mario Ranftl. Page sizes typically stay under 256KB.

All posts are written in markdown for portability. My content management system (CMS) is a bunch of files and folders on my operating system. I use Codeberg for version control and backups.

Privacy

This site is proudly cookie and tracker free, and my emails don’t track you either. For analytics I use Fathom, a privacy-first service that collects just enough anonymous data to tell me what’s useful without storing anything personal. You can read more on the privacy page.

License

The code for this website is released under the MIT License. If you republish any of the content on this site, please provide an author credit and a link back to this site.