Exactly this. My entire website is handcrafted, and not once but over the last decade almost ~10 times.
It's fun and I almost end up revamping something every year.
Everything handcrafted:
- the matrix js code on home page. https://oxal.org click on the matrix for a surprise!
- it's built using my own Static Site Generator: https://github.com/oxalorg/genox
- my website uses a css theme, again handcrafted: https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura/
- if you go to https://oxal.org/blog/ you will see a small cyborg following you (started with a base image generated by chatgpt and then edited and added animations manually in Piskel sprite editor)
- it's deployed on a VPS manually, just run `make` (I've experimented with serving it via a handwritten C http server, but I haven't finished this toy project yet)
- i have several shell scripts which uploads things to my websites in private locations (think gists, quick share videos, screenshots etc.).
- the favicon is also pixel art, made when I was still in college! https://oxal.org/favicon-32x32.png
- I even tried designing my own funky font but gave up and used a Naruto inspired font
- and as a bonus, try to `view-page-source` on the home page
I see my website and feel extremely proud of my journey as a software engineer, and I cherish this simple thing oh so dearly!
It’s good to see you here! For a long time I was just using your project Sakura CSS file to mane everything look pretty.
Even though I have moved on to using a mix of LaTeX.css and a two column theme, I still love using Sakura whenever I’m crafting a hand rolled HTML page for something.
You might like this guy's website - https://kdrag0n.dev/
(it's not me, I also don't know him personally)
That’s hilarious, I was just using Sakura not long ago for a small mvp I made where I couldn’t be arsed to write any css myself. Good stuff
I really like your website, it's both very clear / easy to navigate and yet unusual.
Great work!
