Website credits
tldr; Pay respect to the giants on whose shoulders this website stands
This blog is based entirely on open source technologies. Here’s what powers it.
Tech You See
Hugo
Hugo is a static site generator (SSG). This website is designed to feel and be snappy for the reader—hence the SSG. Hugo, however, does much more than build HTML, CSS, and JS. It also optimizes images, which by itself is a huge win.
Tailwind
Tailwind is a CSS utility framework. Using Tailwind relieves the pain of creating a whole design system, because as a proper framework, it handles typography and class naming conventions. In other words, it saves you time.
JetBrains Mono
JetBrains Mono is an amazing, reading friendly font, that I use almost anywhere.
Heroicons
Heroicons is a collection of SVGs by the makers of Tailwind. It saves a lot of time searching for good SVGs.
Pagefind
Pagefind is a fully static search library. It builds the search indexes at website build time and performs extremely well.
Behind the Curtains
Docker
Docker is a containerization technology. It is used alongside devcontainers and CLI tools (eg. Glyphhanger).
Go
Go is a programming language made by Google. It also powers Hugo. The scripts used in this website are written in Go.
SVGO
SVGO is a tool that optimizes SVGs to serve them faster.
Glyphhanger
Glyphhanger is a tool for font subsetting. It would be silly to serve fonts for languages that aren’t used on this website, wouldn’t it?
Other Services
Unsplash
Unsplash is a directory of royalty-free photos from professional photographers.
SVGRepo
SVGRepo is a directory of SVGs. I found some SVGs here that I could not find in Heroicons.
Thanks to these projects and services for making this site possible.