About

This site is my personal digital garden — a collection of interconnected notes, thoughts, and references on topics I find interesting.

How It’s Built

• Generator: Hugo (v0.131.0) — static site generator written in Go
• Hosting: Static HTML served via CDN (Cloudflare R2 + Pages)
• Styling: Hand-rolled CSS, no framework. Dark theme with a 900px content container
• Fonts: System font stack (SF Pro, Segoe UI, Roboto fallbacks)
• Colors: #262730 (background), #F5F5E0 (text), #77BA99 (links), #A4969B (accents)

Features

• Wiki-style links: note-name syntax for bidirectional links between posts. Valid links are green, broken ones are red.
• Knowledge graph: Interactive D3.js force-directed graph on every post and a full-page graph view. Node size scales with connection count.
• Backlinks: Automatically lists all pages that link to the current page.
• Table of contents: Scrollspy sidebar on post pages with section highlighting and a reading progress bar.
• Search: Client-side search powered by a JSON index. No backend required.
• Tags: Organize posts with tags; browse by tag.
• Syntax highlighting: Chroma-powered code blocks with a custom dark theme.
• Image & file embeds: Markdown image syntax renders images as clickable lightbox links; non-image files render as download links.

JavaScript

• D3.js (v7) — graph visualization only
• Vanilla JS — everything else: search, scrollspy, graph controls, mobile nav
• No React, Vue, jQuery, or build tooling

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Built and maintained by Austin Rein.