| 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! |
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.