Version 1 of this website

I have put a lot of effort into making this website over the last two weeks. I spent most of my time working on it because I'm a little depressed and trying to avoid the real problem.

Here's some interesting tidbits about it.

Pelican - Static Site generator

I am using Pelican to generate this website. It allows me to write my posts using Markdown and apply a theme to it.

It's written in Python and the way it's setup is quite flexible. Allowing me to sorta chunk things around as I please. Thanks Python!

Main features:

• Pretty good documentation. Some minor things missing but found through google.
• Jinja Templates are used for writing .html templates
• Plenty of themes to get you started
• A bunch of really helpful plugins. I am using 11 of them! some I modified myself.

credits

I need to point out that the theme tranquilpeak inspired much of this website... I mean, I kinda ripped it off. I mean, creative freedom!

Fun things I did

Being an ex-software-programmer, I have some old habits, and that learned behavior of refactor refactor refactor. Normally as a learning experience. Definitely in this case a learning experience. So here are some extra things I did that I didn't have to.

In the following posts I write about how I:

• Served image sizes based on viewport height
• Served the smallest css files I could muster
• Adding SoundCloud widget using Jinja and Javascript
• Using Tables in Markdown with Pelican

Background images

I just wanted to comment on how fun the background images are to me. Randomly chosen at runtime, the background-position is also chosen randomly. I felt like the ever changing background was a fun representation of how I shift all the time too.

If you want to see all of them, head on over to the gallery page and look for the background album :)

I should really do some updates to make sure the site doesn't look total shit if Javascript is turned off xD

Shit what do I do now?

Now that I have done enough to feel like it's presentable, I am supposed to slow down on development and amp up the content right? Sigh. Hard to let go of the incessant need to keep making it better and better. Sorry the image viewing isn't amazing yet.