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Land acknowledgement

This website is built and maintained in Chicago, Illinois on land stolen from the Peoria, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Myaamia, Dakota, and Sioux tribes.

Gratitude

A personal website is still, in the best of conditions, a collaborative effort. Tremendous thanks to these folks for feedback, encouragement, troubleshooting, and inspiration.

Technology

I code this website in HTML5, CSS3, Markdown, and Javascript in Panic Nova. It's built with the fantastic static site generator Eleventy. HTML minified by Terser. CSS minified with LightningCSS. CSS reset by Josh Comeau, an all-around fantastic Josh. Version control through Github, and deployed through Cloudflare Pages.

<p>Code blocks parsed by <a href="https://prismjs.com/">PrismJS</a> through the <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight">11ty syntax highlight plugin.</a></p>

Occasionally, I run Anthropic Claude locally to lint my codebase and explain Javascript functionality to me like I'm five. It's an ADHD safety net. No AI is ever used to generate frontend code or content.

The folks contributing to the MDN are heroes. I cannot fathom how I would have made any website without them.

Design

Typography is Fraunces, by Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi at Undercase Type, and IBM Plex Mono. Type scale and layout spacing scale generated by Utopia.

I also design this website myself. Supplementary iconography made in Sketch and converted into a font file with Fontastic. You may gander at my stylebook.

The little illustrated Bartzy guy made by me.

I once heard that the difference between an engineer and a UX designer is that an engineer is a mathematician, and a UX designer is a statistician.

Privacy, accessibility, & environment

Analytics collected and anonymized by Cloudflare regardless of my personal opinion. Some articles may use Javascript to render certain kinds of content, such as maps. I do my best to state this explicitly. All other client-side Javascript, such as section title highlighting, is strictly non-invasive and optional.

Proudly, this website complies with WCAG 2.2 AA-level guidelines

Cloudflare Pages meets the Green Web Foundation's criteria for sustainable energy sources. CO2/view score updates upon user request.

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org

Feedback? Bugs?

File away a new issue on GitHub and let me know what you're seeing.
I'd be happy to hear from you.