Project first published on Jul 11th, 2023
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I made it using the Jekyll static website generator. It would have been absurd to query a database on every request for a simple website like this, a static site generator seemed like the right choice and I had wanted to try Jekyll for a long time. It has been pretty pleasant to work with and I might use it for a future project, even though I'd also like to try Hugo.
For the CSS part, I wanted a simple and non-bloated look and took inspiration from the Brutalist web design guidelines. Working up from raw HTML I gradually added minimal black and white styling.
Finally, because I share my email on my contact page I had to make it unreadable for most scrapper bots. It's not written in the HTML document, instead, I use very simple Javascript (4 lines) to insert an encoded version of my email in the DOM.