For quite a few years, this website was a Python Flask & Node app, running on a little VPS. It shipped with a full admin panel to write articles, upload files, save and share pastes, the lot. Considering that I write about one article every decade, and never use any of those fancy features, the sheer uselessness of it all did eventually make me feel very urgh.
This new website is statically generated by Hugo (Apache License 2.0) from a bunch of Markdown files and a few assets. It takes under 100ms of CPU and I/O time to make the whole thing, which can then be served very efficiently (and cached) by pretty much any provider out there. I also no longer have to maintain the dynamic app and VPS, which means I can forget about the security vulns and the obnoxious customer support team.
The style is very simple and therefore unsurpringly homemade. I’m also not very good with frontend. Big thanks to Flexbox as always.
I did go a little fancy with the fonts though:
- The website name/address is Library 3 am by Igor Kosinsky. It is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
- The monospace font is hack by the Source Foundry contributors. That’s MIT.
- The main font is one of Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica or Arial. If none of those are available, the website defaults to your sans-serif font. This list is taken from Bulma which was my frontend framework for the previous website. Your device picks the actual font for you, so you may refer to its open-source attributions.
There are also a few icons which I got from OpenSVG. And yes, since I handpick them, I will list them:
- GitHub by ProCode, under MIT.
- GitLab by IconScout, under the custom IconScout Simple License, which looks very MIT-ish.
- LinkedIn by HackerNoon, under CC BY 4.0.
- ORCID by CoreUI, under CC BY 4.0.
And finally, a couple of extra graphical assets:
- The avatar was generated a very long time ago with a tool I couldn’t possibly find again. If you know, let me know.
- The light background is the Japanese Asanoha Pattern by Olga Libby. It is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
- The dark background I’m pretty sure came from Subtle Patterns but I can’t seem to find it anymore.
- The favicon is a dear friend’s sweet creation.
If you are the author of any of these and I got something wrong, do let me know. You can email my domain’s registrant address or use any of the socials on the home page.