stack

Built with Jekyll and deployed on GitHub Pages using the github-pages gem (no GitHub Actions). The source is a handful of SCSS partials and two small vanilla JS files: one for the theme toggle, one for the snippets page (copy-to-clipboard and client-side filter).

plugins

Three Jekyll plugins, all on the GitHub Pages allowlist:

• jekyll-feed, RSS at /feed.xml.
• jekyll-seo-tag, OpenGraph and meta tags.
• jekyll-sitemap, sitemap at /sitemap.xml.

why not Jekyll 4?

The github-pages gem pins Jekyll to 3.x, which is fine for the scope. Moving to Jekyll 4 would mean configuring a custom GitHub Actions build, which is more rope to manage for marginal gains.

type

Open Sans for everything; IBM Plex Mono for code. Both loaded via Google Fonts with preconnect and display=swap.

look

Monochromatic, dark gray text on light gray paper, no accent colours. Cells of content live in boxes: each box has a hairline border and a hard, zero-blur drop shadow, so the page reads as a scrapbook of stickers laid on a desk. Each box’s heading is a small title bar across the top, not a big editorial heading.

inspiration

This redesign was inspired by sweetfish.site, Ayu’s hand-built indie web house, where the box-and-shadow vocabulary first won us over. We didn’t copy any of the assets, fonts, or CSS, but the visual structure (panels, hard shadows, <q>-as-label, monochrome) is theirs by way of inspiration. Go visit it.

license

Code under MIT. Written content under CC BY-SA 4.0.