mattchambers.uk https://mattchambers.uk Personal website and blog of Matt — writing and projects. en-gb Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Building this site https://mattchambers.uk/posts/building-this-site/ https://mattchambers.uk/posts/building-this-site/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I've wanted a small corner of the web to call my own for a while, so this week I finally built one. It's an Eleventy site — no framework, no build step you need a manual for, just Markdown files and a bit of Nunjucks.

Why bother

Most of my day job is spent testing other people's software, automated and manual, across web and mobile. Having a project where I control every line — down to the font loading and the colour of a hover state — is a nice change of pace.

The brief I set myself was simple:

  • Fast. No client-side framework, no bundler, nothing to hydrate.
  • Readable. Warm paper background, a proper serif, a sensible line length.
  • Low friction. Writing a post should mean opening a text editor, not logging into a CMS.

What's next

A projects page, an RSS feed, and then — hopefully — actually writing here more often than I redesign it.

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