About this website
I grew up on the Internet in a time when social media meant writing comments on other people’s hand-built blogs. I remember a sense of whimsy, endless curiosity, and a beautiful lack of information overload. It instilled in me a deep appreciation for hand-crafted websites. This is one of them.
Principles
I believe things on the web should be accessible, transparent, and sustainable. In making this website, I do my best to keep in mind the following sources of inspiration:
Content
One element about web publishing that has forever been intriguing me is the question of online identity. As an adult person with hobbies, a career, and various interests, I routinely wonder what I should put on my website, what I should leave out, what style of design I should implement and why.
When it comes down to it, this I know: I believe it’s good to have a single website that serves as my home on the web rather than separate websites for my professional and personal lives. I also believe that it’s okay to use this space to be vulnerable, lack awareness, and change my mind.
Design
Currently this website sports a brutalist single-column design. It’s a humble form of activism of mine to combat the pressure my fellow UX designers and I feel about personal branding.
I love narrow, single-column personal websites. They tell me: “hey, I’m just a person like you, and this is a way for you to get to know me a bit better. All you have to do is knock, I’ll always open the door.” I truly hope this website invokes a similar vibe for you.
I refrain from using custom CSS or content in my diary entries.
Copyright
Everything on this website, unless otherwise stated is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which means:
- You’re welcome to (adapt and) share my work
- If you share my work, please credit me
- You may share my work for noncommercial purposes
- Any adaptations you make, should use the same license
Privacy
Much like you, I assume, I don’t like being tracked on the Internet. There would be countless things I could learn from having analytics running on this website, but since quantitative analysis is a solid part of my day job, I like to keep the mystery alive in my private affairs. I don’t track you, but others might.
To do
- Reinstate digital garden
- Universal tags for posts and notes
- Add way to respond to a page
- Add second xml feed to
netlify-plugin-webmentions
- Add library
- Add Netlify a11y plugin
- Auto POSSE to Mastodon
- Auto-send webmentions
Auto deploy on submodule updateAdd progressive blur to top of pageObsidian post templates- Apple shortcuts for IndieWeb notes
- Apple shortcuts for IndieWeb replies
- Apple shortcuts for IndieWeb likes
- Apple shortcuts photos
- Backlinks from posts
Validation
- Yellow Lab Tools gives this site a 100/100 global score
- This website is a proud member of the 250kb club
Most recently
This site was last deployed on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.