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I'm going to use this post as a living document of the tools, technologies, and hardware I am currently using for the year, both personally and professionally. The idea is that it will be periodically updated throughout the year with comments as things change.
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Even though I have a Mac Studio M2 Ultra and a desktop PC with a 7900 XTX and 5900XT, I still use my MacBook…
_Teachable_. The biggest compliment a college professor can give to a book or a movie is to say that it’s “teachable.” Over the years, somewhat to my dismay, this has become the main criterion I use to assess new texts, especially books. To be teachable, a book or a movie or whatever has to possess a certain set of qualities. It has to be something you can count on a roomful of students to make…
I have decided to redo my website, arbs09.dev.
I wasn't happy with the design and structure of my old site anymore. For the new version, I decided not to use Tailwind CSS because my site looked too "business-like" and not personal enough, so I chose to write vanilla CSS instead. I chose a minimal design for the layout.
I stuck with Zola as my SSG.
I also decided to gradually integrate my…
This Site is build using Zola.
## fonts
Terminal Grotesque by Raphaël Bastide, with the contribution of Jérémy Landes. Distributed by velvetyne.fr.
After successfully moving this blog to Zola, doubts got suppressed and I couldn't resist porting the GNOME Release Notes too.
The blog port worked better than expected. Fighting CI github action was where most enthusiasm was lost. The real test though was whether Zola could handle a site way more important than my little blog — one hosting release notes for GNOME.
I've finally gotten around to porting this blog over to Zola. I've been running on Jekyll for years now, after originally conceiving this blog in Middleman (and PHP initially). But time catches up with everything, and the friction of maintaining Ruby dependencies eventually got to me.
I can't stress this enough — Zola is fast. Not "for a static site generator" fast. Just fast. My…