Why?
First, a quick explanation for why I made this site. The inspiration was originally born out of the desire to publish a battlecode postmortem. Realizing I wouldn't have a good place to host a larger body of text, I set out to repurpose the outercloud.dev domain which I had owned for while but had remained mostly unused.
I've also begun to realize you're own little real estate on the web is a great idea. This website is not bound by any algorithm or 3rd party serving what I post. It's simply here for anyone to happen across. I hope more people might follow in this vein. I'd like to hear about yours if you make one!
What Did I Use?
This website is constructed with VitePress. Most of the content is written in markdown files, although I do add ocassional extra styling with some additonal HTML and CSS added to the markdown. The entire source of this website can be found on GitHub. Using a Github action, the website is built and deployed as a github page when I push changes to the repository. Almost everything is free. The only thing I actually pay for is the domain name. I actually own 4 that link directly to this site.
- outercloud.dev
- outercloud.org
- outercloud.space
- liamh.space
Perhaps I enjoy collecting domains too much.
The main font used on this site is DM Mono. The Jgs and Newsreader fonts are also used in some special cases for emphasis.
Inspiration and Design
I found inspiration from a number of sites I happened to stumble upon while researching. I knew from the beginning I would be going for a minimal, liteweight design somewhat inspired by old terminal nostalgia. Louis-max's blog was a huge inspiration and one of the initialy motivations to go ahead and make this blog. Also, if you're reading this Louis, thanks for using Nudge. That was pretty cool :D
I was also heavily inspired design wise by Sebilune's site. You might be able to pick out some elements I borrowed from them, such as the avatar in the corner and colorful underlined links.
Some other sites I looked at while developing this were https://functor.systems and https://wongmjane.com.