Colophon

I have always inexplicably enjoyed the front matter and back matter of books, so please indulge my little nods to these types of ancillary content as represented on this site.

How this site looks

• The theme is based on Rusty Typewriter by Matheus Queiroz.
• The typeface is Bricolage Grotesque, served directly from this site for performance and privacy.

Writing and publishing

• Content is composed in plaintext Markdown files hosted in a Git repository.
• I write in Sveltia CMS, which runs in the browser and saves each edit as a commit.
• Images and other media live in Git LFS.
• Forgejo, running in my homelab, hosts the repositories and runs the builds.

Building and serving

• Hugo turns all of that into the static site you see before you.
• A small virtual server runs Caddy, which serves the finished pages.

The room where it happens

This website is artisanally hand-crafted primarily in Massachusetts, USA. As much as possible, things run on hardware in my own home and outside of any company’s control using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). What doesn’t live here, like the public web server, DNS and email, I keep with providers outside the United States as practicality allows. Reach out if you have any questions on this.

The IndieWeb bits

• The IndieWeb is a community built around a simple idea: own your corner of the internet. Your words live on your own domain, and open standards connect your site to everyone else’s. I like that idea, so this site tries to follow it.
• Posts carry microformats, so software can read who wrote what and when.
• Webmentions from other sites are received and processed locally by webmentiond. I approve each one before it is published on the site.
• You can follow along by RSS or JSON Feed, with full posts in both. RSS is the best!