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Alexey Staroselets · Apr 2, 2024

Spring Site Updates

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Spring is here and I’m actively digging into the beds of my digital garden.

  • Replaced collapbisble manu with a plain inline navigation bar; also removed mobile navigation modal.
  • Optimized Hugo templates. Hopefully this will make building process a bit faster.
  • Replaced many CSS stylings with native HTML 5.0 tags.
  • Implemented responsive typography. Now text size corresponds with the width of the viewport using formula font-size: calc(15px + 0.390625vw);

Main stylesheet is now 50% smaller: 2.8KB versus 5.8KB (uncompressed). And despite of reduced styling I like the way it looks now - with larger fonts and better usage of space.

Of course, these are not all possible improvements - I can never get enough of caring for Web yard. Here’s what I’m up to:

  • Find an alternative solution for graphic design portfolio display. I’m thinking about ditching animated thumbnails for Film titles and replacing them with simple static images.
  • Do more optimization for Hugo templates
  • Move hosting to a separate self-managed VPS server with nginx
  • Create an automated routine to create mirrors on Gopher and Gemini
  • Improve accessibility for blind and low vision users
  • Keep pages under 14kB1
  • Optimize for e-ink displays
  • Use lowercase in code

Happy Easter! 🐣


  1. Nathaniel on Endtimes explains why the website should be under 14kB (14000 bytes) in size. Barry Pollard has even more detailed explanation on this topic. ↩︎

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