Hello! Long time no see. Although it may look like a big overhaul, I decided to leverage Kev Quirk’s Simple.css Framework to update the UI design. All the content is still around, just formatted (I hope!) cleaner than before.
Reasons why I’m switching:
- No javascript: This is not a fancy web app. I don’t need any type of dynamic content modifications. The goal is to present information clearly to the broadest audience. 20% of the content delivered on this site was for javascript, which I don’t think is worth it in my opinion.
- No external fonts: Although there are some very neat nerd font icons to show Github, LinkedIn, etc, that ultimately reduces readability and adds more overhead to the site. Again, like the javascript, fonts was nearly 20% of the bandwidth on the last GTmetrix score I ran.
- Better performance: It’s funny, a website that pops up instantly is a rarity on the web nowadays. Having instant responsiveness just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
Since the styling is light, this gives me an opportunity to modify the Hugo templates, and make some edits and cleanup.