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 are already open source.
  • The theme library I made is open source on GitHub.
  • An older version of my RSS renderer is on this gist. This needs some updates for Astro 5, though.

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 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

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)