Colophon

noun /ˈkɒləfən/

An inscription at the end of a book or manuscript, typically with details relating to its publication or production.

Philosophy

The design of this website/blog aims to adhere to a small number of core principles:

• Zero external dependencies
• Minimal network requests
• Simple design

This allows me to focus on the content rather than worrying about the design/structure etc.

Technology

• Zola - Static site generator written in Rust.
• Sass - CSS pre-processor, natively supported by Zola.
• Cloudflare Workers - Static site build, deployment and hosting.
• Forgejo - Version control.

Implementation

• Zero external runtime or development dependencies with the exception of the Zola binary.
• Zero client-side scripting, so no client-side analytics, tracking etc.
• Minimal CSS and inlined to reduce network calls. Inspired by elly.town.
• Zero webfonts, uses system fonts only.
• All pages (and ideally all files) <14kB.
• All pages compressed using brotli compression thanks to Cloudflare.
• Builds in <20ms on Apple Silicon.

Style

• Inspired by bearblog.dev.