Colophon

I made this site because I wanted to show people a personal space of my own on the internet. I wrote a bit more about why, and about a couple of the parts I like most, in my first post.

How it’s made

• Built with Astro, with a few interactive bits in Preact and the styles in Tailwind CSS, all written in TypeScript.
• Most pages are built ahead of time, so they’re plain files that load fast. Only the live parts run on demand, like the guestbook, the music and the visit counter.
• Hosted on Cloudflare, which also keeps the guestbook and the songs people send me, and checks for bots.
• The music line and my Discord status come from Lanyard, what I played before comes from Last.fm, and the lyrics come from LRCLIB. The webring links come from lanyard.cafe.

How it looks

• Both fonts are served from this site, never from a font service.
• Pink and cream in the light theme and a warm plum in the dark one, and every text colour is checked against the contrast guidelines (WCAG AA), so it stays easy to read.
• The background is a soft pink sky that picks up a little colour from the song I’m listening to, with halftone dots, sparkles in the margins, and stars in the dark theme.
• Everything that moves stays still if your device asks for less motion, and the button at the bottom of every page pauses it too.
• The icons, the 404 cat and my 88x31 button were made just for this site.

In two languages

Every page and every post is in English and Catalan: the .cat in the name is there because the site is in Catalan too. You can switch at the top of any page.

Privacy

No cookies, no tracking, and no analytics beyond a simple visit counter. Everything the site keeps, and why, is on the privacy page.