Site copyright

The content of this site is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. I define “content” as the text and embedded media that was created by me (so not any 88x31s or embeds in blog posts).

If you’re inspired by this site, I encourage you to roll with that inspiration and make something! There are a few things I ask of you to politely not do, but I legally can’t stop you:

• Please don’t directly clone or rip off this site’s design or “aesthetic”.
  • I encourage you to get inspired, but not to directly copy it. Be creative!
• Please don’t rehost any of my blog posts.
  • Linking to my posts helps me update them for corrections, makes the comments more lively, and lets people discover my main page.
  • Quoting my post on another site is fine, but please supply a link back to the post.
• Please don’t use this site as training data for large language models.
  • This assumes that A) you’re an independent developer and not a mass-scraping web crawler and B) you actually care.

This site was created by me, but I’ve had help from countless other friends along the way. Previous versions of this site (~2023) were created using Zola, and a very old version of this site (~2020) was created by Skip.

Source code

This site is written with Astro. The source repository is currently closed source. This is very unusual for me, but I have a few reasons for it:

• I keep my WIP blog posts in the source tree, so I can pick them up and continue writing them from another machine. I don’t want to have those posts out in the open, especially if I might decide to not publish them.
• My Git history is very messy, as I don’t try very hard for private projects. There’s a lot of random branches and huge commits with descriptions like “asdljfhjasdhf”.
• The code for this repository is honestly not that interesting, and the interesting parts have already been published in the past.
  • A slightly older version of my theme library is open source on GitHub.
  • An old version of my RSS renderer is available on this gist.

Despite this, I’m still willing to share the source code if someone asks. If you’re a friend learning web development who needs a reference, or you’re just curious about my site, feel free to reach out to me and I’ll send you a .zip file.

Fonts, icons, and themes

This site uses fonts from Fontsource:

• Inconsolata
• Inter
• Atkinson Hyperlegible Next

The “nitefall” and “nitelight” themes were created by me guessing what looks good. The other included themes are:

• Catppuccin Mocha
• Gruvbox Dark

The “link” icon from Feather Icons is used on the home page.

88x31s

This site has a lot of 88x31s on the front page. These are hard to establish credit for, because they get rapidly shared across the Internet. I found most of them from a combination of:

• Creating them myself (usually in paint.net or Krita)
• Copying from another friend’s website (most 88x31s for individual people were made by that specific person)
• Web scrapers (e.g. eightyeightthirty.one and x227f)
• Archives (e.g. cyber.dabamos.de, hellnet.work, 88x31.nl)