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This website uses only html and css. The source code is available on github. This is inspired by this website. Although I do care about the loading speed, and realize that Javascript is often used for some less than ethical ends, I would be lying if I didn't also mention that practicality is the foremost reason of the website being the way it is. Plain CSS is plenty for a website like this, and this allows me to write posts in simple HTML, or even markdown. This all without bothering with GitHub actions or frameworks such as HUGO that generate many auxiliary files, and require specific file/folder structures to make a decent website. A side effect of this is that I have a much better understanding of why things on this website look the way they do, though at the cost of the website possibly looking worse than it otherwise would have, I am not a front end developer after all.

The gallery for example is made using a slightly modified version of this gallery using a python script to replace the HUGO functionally of automatically filling in image meta data such as the width and height.

This approach has one major drawback, given that I plan on writing technical blog posts, rendering math will likely be an issue. For this I might break my rule and allow JavaScript into my live. As far as I can tell this is not an issue for proper syntax highlighting, as this can be done by embedding the lexical information in the HTML using website such as this.

That being said, I would like for the web to be a bit more like this website, and a bit less like websites asking about your cookie preferences while talking about not needing your consent.