#andretorgal-com
2 pages under #andretorgal-com
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This website: Meta
These are the raw notes collected while building this website. Todos, issues, ideas, dependencies, strategies, decisions, and so on.
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This website
This is my home on the web. A place where I blog some thoughts and run a few experiments.
Here, you can learn more about me, my work as software engineer and other stuff I have been up to.
8 posts under #andretorgal-com
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Improving (MDX) authoring experience in Astro / Solutions
Astro built-ins and plugins are not sufficient to deliver all the features or details that I want t…
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MDX authoring experience in Astro / Shortcomings
Since I am migrating this site to Astro - which I am convinced is the best SSG out there right now …
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Advanced MDX authoring experience / Requirements
Once I got my new website's information architecture up and running, and migrated most of the old c…
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(re)Building my website with Astro + MDX + Preact
Relaunching my website, again based on another Typescript SSG framework. 🚀 Not React-Static anymore, not even React "at all". Introducing the magnificent Astro. 🌔
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Saying goodbye to my React Static website
I am relaunching my website with Astro. Writing down a word or two about the previous version, React Static, and the original "MDX" experience.
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Staging My Website Rebuilt In React Static
Today the new version of my website is uploaded to a staging endpoint. What is happening, what is n…
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Hello World (Again)
Here I am again, rebuilding the whole thing, enjoying React and static site generation and making p…
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Hello World :wave:
My first website was hosted on tripod, back in 1995 and for the next 13 years I had a constant, tireless, and experimental presence on the web. But In 2008 I took my last site down. For a whole decade, andretorgal.com was nothing but a placeholder or a 404. It's time to change this sad state of affairs.
16 meta docs under #andretorgal-com
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Handcrafted RSS
It's been ages since I've had a feed here.
Now I do RSS.
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My website: Information architecture
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My website: Responsive images
Image generation is handled by a custom Astro integration, similar to
@astrojs/image
, and all images are wrapped in a customFigure
component for richer content and better semantics. The image optimisations are carefully synchronised with the layout. Aspect ratio awareness is mandatory to eliminate CLS. -
Archeology
Previous incarnations of this website.
When, what, how?
See the docs section for details on the current version.
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English spelling, because
I honestly prefer english spelling. But support for
en-gb
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Docs
Some sparse documentation about how this website was built.
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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.
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My website: Changelog
Paper trail of changes in this website, since there is some continuity around 2017. Tasks from my website's backlog, eventually done (or archived).
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Decisions: Current
These options were accepted ✅ and have made it into my website.
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Decisions: Pending
These options are under consideration 🤔 for further development of my website, or simply captured for future reference.
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Decisions: Rejected
Options considered while building this website, maybe even implemented at some point, but eventually ❌ discarded or reverted.
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My website: Colour
Colour palettes. They've been so fine tuned, they're vintage cheese 🐭 by now.
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My website: Layout
This website uses break points defined by the content itself to reorganise content in 4 different layouts.
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My website: Typography
About the typefaces used in this website and the responsive typographical scale in use.
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My website: Conventions
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My website: Styling