Colophon

Hand-typed in minimal HTML/CSS in VSCodium, stored in Mega, transferred through SFTP, hosted by WPX. Set in Palatino Linotype. Colors: #f6e6cf, #503832, #ffd6a5.

Privacy: no analytics, scripts, tracking, cookies, ever. All opinions are mine, not those of past, present, or future clients/employers.

This site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. If you're interested, you can also see the source code in Github.

Designed for pleasurable reading, inspired these design ethe, folks, and principles:

• Against digital pollution.
• A personal website is a bit like a quilt.
• Built to last.
• Cool URIs don't change.
• Chris Glass: For having a 'junk drawer' section on his site.
• Derek Sivers: For inspiring me to make a site in the first place.
• Everest Pipkin: For the genius notion of putting a 'trades' page on their site.
• Maggie Appleton: For creating a beautiful site, and introducing me to digital gardening.
• Manuel Moreale: For making me aware of many wonderful bloggers.
• Mnmlist & Zen Habits: Leo Babauta for inspiring a (mostly) text-only site.
• Winnie Lim: For the idea of a statistics section on my homepage.
• For spotting errors: Ariel Salminen, Rosaria Delacroix, and Rishi Sreehari.

Inspired by Tracy Durnell's lovely post about her principles for how she wanted to approach her website, I'm doing the same, though, here instead.

1. Undying Optimism: This is related to the third principle, but I think it's worth highlighting. Negativity has had me in a death grip for as long as I can remember. While skepticism is something I've always found useful, constant doom and gloom is suffocating. So just like what I try to infuse my fiction with, I want to do the same with my site.
2. Kindness, Always: Somehow we equate kindness with softness, as though it's a weakness. I'd argue it's the opposite. It's so much easier to succumb to impulses we'd rather not. It takes strength, grace, and humility to be kind to yourself and others. While I have the latter down pat, the former... is a work in progress. This is me committing to kindness from the inside out, not merely from the outside.
3. Proactive Hope: Hope keeps us alive and moving forward. This is what I know. Though I also know it's its nothing without proactive progress. I may be only one person, though I aim to help foster connection, delight and knowledge-sharing across the internet.
4. Useful Beauty: As the textile artist and designer William Morris said: "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." I'd take it a step further. Why not both? Always? In my published writing, and everything I create, I aim for this.
5. The Human Dream: We all share something in common, and that's our humanity: in all its flawed, stunning beauty. Remembering our connection to our shared existence is something I try to do every day.

Here's what accessibility features this site has. Always open to hearing from folks on how I could improve! Please contact me with feedback or questions! You'll be credited, of course.

• Alt text for images
• Appropriate color contrast and minimal color palette
• Back to the top and skip to content links
• CSS sizing using em instead of pixels
• Each link's text being specific, not general like 'click here' and external link indicators
• Labels for forms: code-side and browser-side
• Language attributes for each page within the html
• Lazy loading images
• No Javascript, only css, html, and some php
• Providing multiple file formats of each image to speed up loading times
• Semantic html: a header, nav, main, and footer
• System fonts so no loading remote fonts

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