colophon
@h2 nef
The engine that powers this website is one of my own design, NEF. NEF is a
$(wc -c < $0)-byte POSIX shell script, the absolute minimum I could manage to
put in an SSG. In fact, here's the
whole thing:
$(awk '{ gsub("&", "\\&") gsub("<", "\\<") gsub(">", "\\>")
print }' $0)
Of course, all it really does is get you set up — I've added much
more to it for this site. You can see my source code
at its repo, if you want.
You can copy it too, as long as you follow the
license.
@h2 me
I like the idea of combining "about me" pages with colophons (though
I don't like this plural of colophon; I would've thought it'd be
something cooler, like octopodes): I played a major part in creating this
webpage, after all, and it'd be very different if I weren't involved!
I was born in a holler in East Tennessee. I was an adult for quite a while
before I fully realized it was a holler I was born in; I think now of fish and
the water. Speaking of water, there was a creek across the road, which we'd go
and watch crawdads in. There was (still is as far as I know) a mulberry tree
next to the barn that we'd pick as many mulberries from as we could before the
birds ate the rest. I climbed a lot of trees in those days, at home.
I went to school too, of course, and a number of extracurriculars like anyone
might. Eventually, I went to college and got a degree in writing, then to
another college for another degree in writing. I met my wife and we got
married. We have two dogs and we live in a house in Louisiana.
I don't know what else to say about myself. I guess if you'd like to know me
better, read more of this website or my other writing; if you'd still like to
know me better you can send me an email; if you'd still like to know me better
... well, let's start with the email.
@h2 a note on the typeface
In my site's CSS, I define fonts simply
as monospace, serif, and sans-serif, or
the default fonts for your system. I spent a lot of time with previous
iterations of this site putzing around with different fonts, trying to figure
out how best to load them, where to put them, what formats to use, etc., but
then I realized that what I tell patrons regarding their resumé holds true for a
website as well: it really doesn't matter as long as it's readable. So I just
use the defaults.
That means that if my website is ugly to you, it's your fault. Take
some pride in this nightmare rectangle you spend increasingly more of your time
staring at! Change the default fonts of your browser! Here, I'll even show you
where to find out how: