Colophon

A colophon is an "under the hood" look at a website. I'm neither a web developer nor designer, so I can't really impart any wisdom on making a great website, but I hope this page will help you see that you can build a website. And I really hope you do. Every time someone stops arguing with robots and haters on social media and takes control of their tastes and online identity, the internet becomes a much cooler place.

This website doesn't track visitors, because I don't care about hits and clicks. I don't care about numbers, and don't give a singular shit about SEO, because I didn't make this site for commerce. I pay $20 a year to put it on the internet for fun!

I'm using some of my spare time to learn some HTML and CSS, and this is the culmination of my learning - a handmade website (except the stream page which was totally vibe-coded with claude.ai to start and then refined by hand). The code is probably a mess, and lots of stuff probably doesn't work as it should, but it's mine and is always getting better. If you have any advice, or want me to know something, send me an email: s^nd^^pl^^^s@protonmail.com. Process-wise I edit all of my .html files by hand, upload them to GitHub, and then deploy them to Vercel.

You could make one, too!

Before I learned enough html to make a website from scratch (which truly isn't a lot), I used a way easier workflow that I want to share here in case you'd like to start a personal website, but aren't the computer-y type. I followed this guide exactly to create the first iteration of my site - I wrote my posts in Obsidian, and used the Digital Garden plugin to convert my Obsidian notes into HTML pages. The plugin uploaded those automatically to a repository I set up on GitHub. Then GitHub deployed the HTML pages to my host, Vercel... okay, I realize this seems wildly complicated, but after the initial set up all I had to do to publish a page to my site is hit ctrl+p. It's actually easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.

If I know you IRL, text me and I will help you set it up.