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André Torgal

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About this website.


16 meta docs under # andretorgal-com

  • My website: Responsive images

    Photo of wall with stickers

    Image generation is handled by a custom Astro integration, similar to @astrojs/image, and all images are wrapped in a custom Figure component for richer content and better semantics. The image optimisations are carefully synchronised with the layout. Aspect ratio awareness is mandatory to eliminate CLS.

  • Archaeology

    Screenshot of my website's about page back in 2019. It's black, while and red, and has a photo of me standing in front of a fake giant moon

    Previous incarnations of this website.

    When, what, how? Which languages and frameworks?

  • Docs

    Some sparse documentation on this website’s design and implementation.

    See also: Decision records about architecture, stack, and tools.

  • My website: Backlog

    Stuff I want to do on this website, or otherwise just investigate and experiment with. The done stuff is on the changelog page.

  • Decisions: Current

    These options were accepted :white_check_mark: and have made it into my website.

  • Decisions: Pending

    These options are under consideration :thinking_face: for further development of my website, or simply captured for future reference.

  • Decisions: Rejected

    Options considered while building this website, maybe even implemented at some point, but eventually :x: discarded or reverted.

  • My website: Colour

    Colour palettes. They’ve been so fine tuned, they’re vintage cheese :mouse: by now.

  • My website: Layout

    Screenshot of my website taken at a resolution of 420 pixels

    This website uses break points defined by the content itself to reorganise content in 4 different layouts.

  • My website: Typography

    About the typefaces used in this website and the responsive typographical scale in use.

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