Responsive

The site is fully functional without JavaScript and cookies as I browse the Internet (including my own blog) with uBlock Origin hard mode on.

I used to avoid JavaScript whenever possible. Due to maintenance burden, this has changed. You can still block JavaScript if you don’t need them.

• pagefind: used in search
• script.js (disabled for now)

  • self-hosted umami, open source Google Analytics alternative.
  • uBlock Origin would block it by default as I don’t obfuscate the name. It’s also possible to exclude your visit via localStorage.

All privacy settings Hugo have are enabled. Blacklight also reports 0 tracker.

Also, no annoying cookie placeholder (with so-called essential cookies always enabled) or intrusive Enable JavaScript to Browse the Site banner.

Accessible

• Sidebar: show a lot of metadata with QR code of the page (show on mouse hover).
• External link marker
  • Example: première, segundo, terzo
  • ○: HTTPS external link
  • ●: HTTP external link
  • ❖: non HTTP/HTTPS link, e.g. mailto:, tel:, rsync:
• TBB: if you use w3m/lynx, most things will just work fine, although I recommend chawan nowadays which supports CSS, inline image and JavaScript.
• Media: I hardly add images/videos as they usually add nothing but distraction, but when I do, they are converted with libavif/ffmpeg into AVIF/WebM formats with sensible filename & alternative text (via MD045 rule by markdownlint) so you get the idea without loading it in the first place.

RSS with XSLT

The site provides native full-text RSS. Unfortunately, tag RSS is summary only to reduce size (by 97%!) as there are too many of them.

It’s also possible to receive updates for certain taxonomy by adding /index.xml suffix. For example, for /tags/dev RSS, just use /tags/dev/index.xml as feed URL. Broken due to XSLT template.

Visiting RSS via browser would also show a working HTML page instead of XML, which is powered by XSLT via a patched version of RSS.Beauty.

iCalendar

iCalendar (ICS) subscription is also available as an alternative to RSS. Personally I use ICSx⁵ on Android to manage subscription.

Search

Powered by pagefind (Rust & WASM under the hood, thus requiring JavaScript). Simply head to /search and explore a bit.

Dark

As one of those who values their retinas when working at 3 AM, I take pride in the membership of darktheme.club.

PGP-Signed

Pages are signed with my GnuPG key¹.

Fingerprint: 58222FDBCBFB1D0D51AE0088C20D48DA42BADC2E.

We use about in this example (self-reference🤣):

# import public key into GnuPG
wget https://blog.vinfall.com/pubkey.asc
gpg --import ./pubkey.asc

# download and verify
wget https://blog.vinfall.com/about/index.html{,.asc}
TZ=UTC gpg --no-options --keyid-format long --verify index.html.asc index.html

The above should output a message containing Good signature, otherwise the file is corrupted.

As long as you download the public key from the site and the fingerprint matches, you may discard any additional warning.

FIN

OK, so much talk on a site that transfers only 70 kB data² when visiting this page. It cannot beat the speed of sourcehut³, but it gets most of my aesthetics & philosophy delivered.