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“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
This website is built by an enthusiastic learner using a modernised mix of Bootstrap 5 (opens in a new tab), a handful of older structural ideas carried forward intentionally and a growing collection of custom components, mostly written in PHP (opens in a new tab).
These days a framework is scaffolding, not the wallpaper. I use it where it helps, ignore it where it doesn’t and overrule it whenever it gets in the way of the typography.
This page sets no cookies and shows no adverts. The type is served from this site; Bootstrap still comes from jsDelivr, so your browser asks them for it.
I began building this site as a student in Denver, Colorado, around . Fast forward to , and I now live and work in London, UK. The site has been rebuilt, revised, simplified and occasionally broken more times than I can count.
Special thanks to Jessica Hische (opens in a new tab) and her project Don’t Fear the Internet (opens in a new tab), which encouraged me to learn how the web actually works and to build this site (mostly) from scratch rather than rely entirely on templates.
The site is set primarily in Crimson Pro, designed by Sebastian Kosch and served from this site under the SIL Open Font License. It is “a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces,” complete with small caps, oldstyle figures and other typographic niceties that reward slow reading.
For fellow dorks and the incurably curious, ongoing changes are documented in the changelog and reflected more deliberately in the evolving design system.
First edition. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2—umpteenth revision, .