Version 10 December 2024 – Present

Ported the site from a custom static site tool to Astro. While things looks—essentially—the same as version 9, the stylesheets were rebuilt from the ground up for the first time in about 15 years, bringing with it a lot of modern CSS improvements, and shedding a cavalcade of baggage that’s hung around from the days of IE.

Version 9 December 2022 – January 2025

No visual changes with version 9, but the site was rebuilt using a purpose-made static site generator. This update removes the now badly rotted away link blog archive.

Version 8 March 2020 – December 2022

As a result of browser support for variable fonts being viable, and high quality free variable fonts exist I switched to Source Serif Pro (variable) from Adobe.

Version 7 March 2019 – March 2020

Well, Adobe decided that they needed to make TypeKit, now Adobe Fonts, prohibitively expensive for a site like mine. Instead of ponying up I opted to take the opportunity to move to using only fonts I can host here myself. No more third party scripts for fonts means more 3rd party tracking, and that’s a win for everyone. Set in HK Grotesk by Hanken Design Co.

This update also brings a proper dark theme for browsers that support prefers-color-scheme: dark media queries.

Version 6 April 2018 – March 2019

Full rewrite in TypeScript. Set in Omnes Pro and Anonymous Pro.

Version 5 October 2015 – April 2018

This iteration, the last on the Clojure codebase, is based in a large part on reading, Matthew Butterick’s Practical Typography. Set in Prenton and Ubuntu Mono.

Version 4 June 2012 – October 2015

A visual overhaul to version 3, still built on Clojure. In this era I started using TypeKit (not yet owned by Adobe) and set everything in Mark Simonson’s Proxima Nova.

Version 3 September 2010 – June 2012

Third version of the site, and another complete rebuild, porting the content over to Clojure and CouchDB. Headings set in Derek Weathersbee’s Franchise Bold using Cufon (that was a weird period in web typography), everything else is system Helvetica.

Version 2 March 2006 – September 2010

Complete rebuild with Django Framework, including both a blog and a wiki.

Version 1 November 2004 – December 2006

A blog built on a hacked up Wordpress install.