About
About this site
This website serves as my personal weblog, where I share my artwork and other things that interest me. It replaces my previous presence on Reddit, Twitter and DeviantArt, as I have grown increasingly cynical about the direction and overall state of those (and many other!) platforms over the years.
I started building this website with no web development experience. I first wrote everything as individual HTML files, but that quickly became tedious. I then tried automating the process with Bash scripts, Pandoc, and Python, only to find those solutions growing just as cumbersome.
Eventually I settled on Hugo, an open-source static site generator. A static site generator produces static HTML files from markdown files, HTML templates, and data files. This makes them ideal for small sites such as blogs or documentation sites which only need to update their information once in a while and less suitable for social networks or large storefronts. You can find the Git repo for this entire project here.
This website uses no JavaScript, no cookies, and no trackers. It does, however, use HTML5. I’ve gathered that this is a grave sin according some Indieweb purists out there but I cannot be bothered to pore over documentation and compatibility tables to see if a given semantic is supported by the final NCSA Mosaic release. Besides, I think some semantics here and there are neat.