Personal Website

aleksalatalo.com →

Why?

I enjoy doing all kinds of stuff, but I often forget how I did something I already did, or delete the project with no way to get it back. So I made this site to remind myself of the things I did, and to show anybody curious my work and how I made it.

How?

Hand-written HTML and CSS. No framework, no build step, no JavaScript. I followed the landchad instructions to set up an nginx server, with Vultr as the host and Namecheap for the domain, and certificates from Let's Encrypt through Certbot. Deploying is one scp of the folder.

Why so plain?

Every part of it is something I can read and fix. Nothing here needs updating to stay secure, nothing breaks because a dependency changed, and it will still load in ten years. That's the whole argument.

What's next?

A Finnish version of the pages, and more entries in Works as I finish things. The Now page is the part I intend to actually keep current.