Colophon

Impact

Approximately 0.08g of CO₂ is produced every time someone visits this website. Which is cleaner than 92% of websites tested by websitecarbon.com

According to the official eleventy speedlify rankings this website is the 560th fastest eleventy site submitted. Last time speedlify ran, this site earned the following lighthouse score:

• Performance 99
• Accessibility 100
• Best Practices 96
• SEO 92

Philosophy

This website will be incrementally correct, progressively enhanced, and my personal worry stone.

Design

Special thanks go to:

• Frank Chimero has been a huge inspiration for design approach and many of the honest, open concepts I hope this site conveys. I will never not be jealous of Frank.
• Matthew Smith’s Website Inspired this page, among others.
• Julian inspired the journal.
• The Value of Multi-Typeface Design by Bethany Heck made me think more about being less minimal about font selection.

And, in no particular order, a list of people and sites that have contributed some visual inspiration:

• Klim Foundry
• Manu Moreale
• Kleinschmidt
• Budi Tanrim
• Stephan Friedli
• Mike McQuade
• Foster Type
• Matus Hatala
• Maarten Afink
• Mike Guss
• Pierre Georges
• Benji Taylor
• Maggie Appleton
• Font Review Journal
• Christoph Labacher
• Josie Young

Development

This site is built using Eleventy (11ty), hosted on Netlify, the content and data is pulled from last.fm, Savee, Letterboxd, Feedbin, Literal and GitHub.

The Source Code is hosted on GitHub.

• The The A11Y Project inspired me to try Eleventy, and provided excellent advice.
• I am using the CUBE CSS methodology for all the styling.
• I was also inspired by SmolCSS. The minimal snippets are an excellent example that CSS is an art form.
• I combined This tutorial in the Eleventy docs with PostCSS for a simple, extendable style pipeline.
• The Eleventy RSS plugin avoided lots of RSS headaches.
• Piccalilli wrote a simple tutorial on outputting JSON from Eleventy.
• I was also helped along the way by tea-stack and eleventyone.
• I was also heavily insipred by Aleksandr Hovhannisyan when I was working how to build sidenotes.
• Max Kohler wrote an excellent guide to implementing per-post commit logs
• I learned from Ben White that Cloudflare exposes a very handy environment variable containing the latest commit SHA: GitHub

Typography

My typographic system is made up of:

• PicNic from Velvetyne is used for display headings.
• Taurus Grotesk from Foster Type is used as body copy, and some headings.
• Signifier from Klim is used for larger headings.
• Pitch from Klim is used for smaller text, and data.

This site has formerly used:

• Blanco from Foster Type was used as body copy, and some headings.
• GT America Extended from Grilli Type was used for larger headings.