Colophon: the inner workings of this blog

codedge was the name of my freelance business over 10 years. The title remained and now it is a collection of technical, sometimes in combination with socialpolitical touch, technical guides and deep dives into digital spheres.

TL;DR

The site is built with Hugo and hosted on Bunny.net.

Codeberg is home of the code and runs Forgejo actions for deployment. Further information about this can be found in my post. DNS resolving is handled by Domain Offensive.

Analytics

To give me some basic numbers about the visitor count, the privacy-respecting Goatcounter does a fantastic job.
No cookies or any other tracking mechanisms are used. No cookie banner is needed.

AI usage

I am not a fan of generative AI.

I will not knowingly use AI to produce any of my professional output including code, design, and correspondence. I intend to make all reasonable efforts to avoid interaction with AI where possible for the work I produce.

Cost

The monthly cost to keep this site running are actual minimal.

Design

The design of this site has evolved a lot over the years and now is back at a state to transmit information from me to you. Only that. Because it’s a motherfscking website.

The goal of the current design is to be mostly brutalist with a hint of whimsy to keep things interesting. I like the simplicity of the layout. There are a few features here and there to help readers, but I try to keep the focus firmly on the content.

The styling is entirely custom built with Tailwind CSS. I use Martian Mono as the only font on this site.

Icons used are:

• Simple Icons: brand icons in the footer
• theSVG: programming language icons
• Lucide: sections and headlines

Search

The search on this site uses DuckDuckGo to provide a privacy-respection and non-javascript based solution.

RSS

I provide an RSS feed for all my articles in full length.