A colophon is the page where a publication declares how it was made. This one is short, because the stack is short.

Stack

  • Generator: Hugo (static, no database, no server-side code of mine) with the PaperMod theme.
  • Hosting: Cloudflare Workers — the site is plain HTML/CSS/JS served from the edge.
  • Source: GitLab, built and deployed on push.
  • Analytics: Umami , self-hosted on my own VPS (Oracle Cloud) — cookieless, no IP stored, no data shared with anyone. Web performance metrics come from Cloudflare Web Analytics, also cookieless.
  • Comments: none, by design. You can find me on GitHub or use the “Reply by email” button at the end of each post.

Principles

  • dumb & static: everything is generated at build time; if a feature needs a server, it probably doesn’t belong here.
  • privacy by default: no cookies, no third-party trackers, no consent banner because there’s nothing to consent to. Details in the privacy policy.
  • data stays in the EU: the only analytics database lives on my own machine in an EU datacenter.

Easter eggs

There are a few. One involves dust, one involves a classic cheat code. The console is your friend.