My Personal Site
lovergne.devRepository: github.com/theBigRoomXXL/lovergne.dev
I started this project in the summer of 2023 as a way to experiment with a more minimalistic stack and design for the web. This site is organized like a zettelkasten: everything that I write is a self-contained note that links to other resources. A tag system is used to categorize the notes into different pages of the site (awesome, blogroll, projects), and each note has its own page with a unique URL.
I use Astro for static site generation, and there are no other dependencies (well, technically, there is normalize.css for CSS reset, but it’s so small it doesn’t really count!). The site was originally hosted on my homelab, but I moved it to GitHub Pages so that I could close all public-facing services on my homelab.
There are a lot of little things I like about this site:
- Light and Fast: The landing page is currently only 32KB (fonts and logo included!), which means it’s blazingly fast™.
- Fully Accessible: Built with semantic HTML and accessibility in mind.
- It’s Beautiful: Well, at least I think so. And I really love my little isometric logo.
- Dark/Light Theme: Based on
prefers-color-scheme. - Print Support: With a minimal secondary stylesheet (see print.css). I don’t think anyone else cares about that, but I like it.
- RSS Feed Support.
And finally, the thing I like the most is that every page is also rendered as a plain text file! Just click on the little Want Some ASCII? button at the bottom of the page, and you’ll get the plain text version. This is a useless but lovely feature. It started when I was playing with ASCII diagram characters to render tables and then read the OpenSSH regreSSHion report and though ” what if I used the same plain text formatting but using more advanced unicode characters?”. After that it turned into a deep-dive into Unicode and hacks like bold and italic formatting using mathematical characters. This was also an opportunity to work with Abstract Syntax Trees to parse the markdow, which was something that piqued my curiosity for a long time.