Updated: 2026-06-13
A colophon is a page or section (typically in a footer) of a site that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies, and often published on personal sites at a top level /colophon page.
Source: IndieWeb.org
Analytics
For analytics, I use Cabin, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
For more info on how Cabin collects analytics, please visit Cabin’s privacy page.
Site Hosting
To host my site I use GitHub pages. It’s completely free, so long as you don’t mind ALL the code for your website being available to literally anyone. As a believer in FOSS I don’t mind at all, besides I have nothing to hide!
Domain Registrar
I use Porkbun because they offer a lot of domain services for free, services other registrars charge extra for…
- WHOIS privacy
- SSL certificates
- URL forwarding
- Email forwarding
- CLoudflare DNS management
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Framework
My website uses Hugo, an open-source static site generator.
I like Hugo most for it’s speed. My website will build and deploy in less than 30 seconds and scores very high on PageSpeed Insights.
Desktop score: 100 Open Report ↗
Mobile score: 99.75 Open Report ↗
It’s popularity also means there’s lots of support available, and it’s easy to Google questions and get quick answers.
Fonts
I use Atkinson Hyperlegible Next for the main website font, and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono for any code snippets.
I use this font because, as the name suggests, it has been designed explicitly to be easy to read. It was created by The Braille Institute of America, and is free for anyone for personal or commercial uses. It’s designed to be accessible, so I use it on all of my projects.
I’d encourage you to read more about this font on the Braille Institute website. It’s also available to download on Google Fonts.
Theme
I was looking online for a template to use for my website and found Pascal Michaillat’s GitHub repo ‘hugo-website’, which is an academic-focused website template made from Papermod by Aditya Telange, which is itself a modification of the `Paper’ theme by nanxiaobei. (wow that’s a lot of hyperlinks!)