Building this site
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.