This website

I wanted a site I fully understand and can maintain without an off-the-shelf CMS, so it's deliberately simple.

How it's built

• Server: Node.js with Express, pages are rendered on the server with Nunjucks.
• Content: Every project is a folder with a YAML file for metadata and one Markdown file per language. They're edited through admin pages that are only reachable from my home network. Changes go live right away, without a restart.
• Images: sharp resizes them on first request and keeps the results in a cache.
• Hosting: A Docker container managed in Dockge, with Nginx Proxy Manager in front for HTTPS. The container runs with a read-only filesystem and no extra privileges.

What I paid attention to

The site sets no cookies and doesn't load anything from third-party servers, fonts included. Everything still works without JavaScript, the animations are an extra and respect the system setting for reduced motion.

The background on the homepage is a small WebGL shader that lets the stripes of the genderfluid flag flow into each other.