Built With

This website is built on top of multiple free and open source tools.

The source code itself is freely available on GitHub.

Jekyll

Web browsers understand HTML files. Humans, by comparison, have a harder time understanding them, since they’re not particularly easy for a human to read! Jekyll lets me create a website using a human-readable file type called Markdown, and it transforms this Markdown into HTML for me.

More concisely, these Markdown files content is created using two different languages, Markdown and Liquid, which Jekyll uses to carry out different jobs:

• The Markdown language allows me use special symbols (like # Header) instead of HTML (<h1>Header</h1>

• The Liquid language allows me to perform magic, and do anything else not related to content - like specifying page metadata (like dates), or performing special operations like linking pages to one another.

TailwindCSS

Jekyll helps me with content, however, it does not help me with the appearance of my content. For this, I rely on the TailwindCSS library.

I love this library because I love how it feels to use.

It allows me to style my interface in an interactive way. Specifically, I can edit the appearance of say buttons, and watch the appearance change in real time without having to refresh a page.

It provides me with simple utilty classes which I can combine together to create more complex behaviour.

Having said all of that, I’ll admit that the end result is hard to read, however, this doesn’t particularly bother me because it feels so damn good.