Colophon
Software
- macOS 13
- Nova
- Git and Tower 3 for version controlling the site.
- Kaleidoscope
- Octopress. A huge thank you to Brandon Mathis for creating such a great framework for Jekyll.
- Lightroom Classic and Acorn for editing images.
- Ansible for provisioning and managing the server as well as generating and publishing the site.
Design
The site design is heavily influenced by some of my writing heroes Marco Arment, John Gruber, and John Siracusa.
I heavily customized the classic Octopress theme using Liquid and SASS. I also added some additional plugins to allow tagging and captions.
The colors for the site are from the Goulet Pen Company Swab Shop1. They are:
- Noodler’s Borealis Black: body and heading text
- Noodler’s 54th Massachusetts: subtitle and pull quotes
- J. Herbin 1670 Rouge Hematite: link hover
- Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki: links
- Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo: top page border
- Noodler’s Lexington Gray: caption, footer, navigation, and publish date
Typefaces
- Crimson Text for body and headers
- Titillium Web for the publication date, navigation, and caption
- Source Code Pro for code blocks
- All typefaces are from Google Web Fonts
Hosting
Hardware
- 2020 11” M1 MacBook Air 16GB RAM 8 GPU/8 CPU Cores
- 2021 14” M1 Pro MacBook Air 32GB RAM 16 GPU/10 CPU Cores
- Fuji X-T4
- Fuji 35mm ƒ/1.4 R
- Fuji 56mm ƒ/1.2 R
- Fuji 16-80mm ƒ/4.0 R
- CODE Mechanical Keyboard, 87-Key MX Blue
- Logitech MX Anywhere 3