Colophon

How this site is made.

This site is small, hand-tended, and built with care. Here's what's under the hood.

Generator

Jekyll 4.4 on a heavily-customised fork of al-folio, hosted on GitHub Pages.

Front page

The mosaic on the home page is a hand-built bento grid (no plugin, no templating shortcut) — every tile is declared in _pages/about.md and rendered by _includes/content_blocks.liquid.

Type

  • Display: Fraunces — warm, slightly literary, slightly drunk.
  • Body: the system sans stack inherited from Bootstrap.
  • Code: the highlight.js GitHub theme.

Colour

One brand triple: a warm rose accent, a paper off-white, and a deep ink. All defined in _sass/_variables.scss.

Images

Photos are served from Cloudinary with q_auto,f_auto so each visitor gets the best format their browser supports. Local images live in assets/img/ and are kept lean.

The globe

The interactive earth on /travel is built with globe.gl on top of three.js, with hand-rolled HUD chrome.

Source

Everything is open and forkable on GitHub. If you spot a typo, a bug, or a more beautiful idea — pull requests welcome.