Site Design
It’s built the same way I like writing code and solving problems: start small and from scratch, don’t hide complexity behind tooling, and make sure it works offline.
If something loads slowly, that’s probably on me.
This site is currently hosted on Linode until I figure out how to securely self-host it from my homelab.
Editing This Site with Vim
All the HTML and CSS for this site is written by hand using Vim with a minimal setup — no frameworks, no IDE bloat, just raw files, a questionable (because I have no clue how python implements it) python abstracted setup of a http server and keystrokes. Below is my vimrc at the time of writing this site:
execute pathogen#infect()
autocmd vimenter * hi Normal guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE
autocmd vimenter * hi EndOfBuffer guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
set autoindent
set smartindent
set smarttab
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
let g:html_indent_script1 = 1
let g:html_indent_style1 = 1
let g:html_indent_tag1 = 1
set number
set relativenumber
colorscheme slate
Bash script I wrote to view the changes and run on a tmux pane, then switch to and ctrl-z the editing pane to modify the site on fullscreen:
#!/bin/bash
python3 -m http.server 8000
I write everything manually, treating HTML and CSS like LaTeX — structured, minimal, and readable. No build step, no minifiers, just :w and loads of :vsp to view other pages in split.