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This page covers the nuts and bolts of how the site works. People often ask what stack I use, so here’s the full setup.

The site is created with Pure Blog and served from a VPS at Hetzner. The theme is hand-rolled, lightweight, and built for fast builds and minimal overhead. Traffic is routed through Bunny CDN which handles global caching and keeps latency low.

Design

The design of this site has evolved a lot over the years. I enjoy tweaking and improving it, and being nostalgic, I’ve kept a full design history for anyone who wants to see how things have changed.

The goal of the current design is a mostly brutalist look with a hint of whimsy to keep things interesting. I like the simplicity of the layout. There are a few features here and there to help readers, but I try to keep the focus firmly on the content.

Design choices

No website is completely unique. Every design draws inspiration from things the creator has seen, whether that’s deliberate or not. This site is no different.

The font stack uses Iosevka as the primary typeface, followed by a local monospace fallback font stack.

The colour palette for the light theme is my own creation, and I think it works well with the overall look and feel of the site:

Dark mode is the same colour palette, only with the colours inverted. That is with the exception of the red accent colour, which uses a lighter variation in dark mode: