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About the site
This website is my online home. It is not finished and it changes as I do. It leans more personal than professional: a place to try new technologies and collect ideas and interests.
Design
There’s an old joke about designers never finishing their own portfolios. It’s true, it is hard to be your own client. I was never fully happy with any of the variations I was working on, so I took the MVP route: a good enough base to keep building on. I’ll eventually add a changelog to document the improvements.
This is the fourth version. It leans on typography and white space, a plain foundation to build on.
The past, somewhat embarrassing versions are still up:
Typography
Two variable fonts, hosted locally: Work Sans by Wei Huang and Zodiak by Indian Type Foundry.
Technology
The source lives on GitHub and the site is hosted and automatically deployed on Netlify.
It is built with Hugo, a static site generator, and a custom theme (V4) .
I fine-tune design details in the site’s pattern library, built with Fractal.
Posting content
Blog posts are usually written in Markdown in Bear and pushed to the repo with a Shortcut I made that calls GitHub’s API.
Most of my notes are first posted on Twitter and then syndicated here.
IndieWeb
I like what The IndieWeb stands for. The site is still far from fully IndieWebified, but I’m working on it.
I receive and show Webmentions on my posts thanks to Webmention.io.
I tested publishing with Micropub clients and it worked, but I don’t use them because the site is bilingual. I try to post everything in both languages, and a series of Shortcuts handles that better for me. I’m sure it can be done in code; I haven’t gotten there yet.
Web analytics
I use Umami, a simple self-hosted, privacy-focused analytics tool.