Colophon
This is a personal website.
I grew up on the Internet in a time when social media meant writing comments on other people’s hand-built blogs. No “hey guys welcome back to my vlog”, no Instagram highlight reels. The sense of whimsy, coziness, and a beautiful lack of information overload are highs I have been chasing ever since.
The Web 1.0 has instilled in me a deep appreciation for a small-scale, intimate, and friendly Internet made up of hand-crafted websites. This is one of them. I’ve been yelling at Internet clouds since 1997.
I generally don’t know people visit this space unless they tell me. The most humbling response I’ve received about my website to date comes from the wonderful Simone Silverstroni, who shared the following quote in his People & Blogs interview:
Zinzy Waleson Geene has a website that’s a constant source of curiosity. She alters the look, changes typography, structure, navigation so often that following through RSS isn’t enough. When I see a new post, I go check the website.
This website…
- Doesn’t track you
- Gets a 100/100 score from Yellow Lab Tools
- Is written by a human, not AI
- Is a simple, motherfucking website, a room, a home; one designed to last
- Follows brutalist web design principles
- Steers clear of how we experience the web today
- Is hosted green and has been designed to minimise the energy consumption and CO2 emissions that result from navigating the Internet
Technical details
- This site is built with static site generator Hugo. I like HTML energy, but I also like conserving my writing across many different technologies, apps, and frameworks. I write in Markdown, and keep all of it in a single folder.
- It lives in a repo on Github, and is deployed via Netlify
- It uses Tailwind, browser-native typography, and little else
- It uses h-card and h-entry IndieWeb standards
Copyright
Unless otherwise stated, as per CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, you may copy and redistribute things on this website in any medium or format, as long as you…
- Credit me
- Don’t use it for commercial purposes
- Don’t publish or distribute it if you remix, transform, or build upon it
Privacy
I respect your digital sovereignty. I do not track your personal data nor the journey you take on this website or any others. While I do my best to minimize this, please remember that, while I don’t track you, others might.