cdown / chrisdown.name

The files behind chrisdown.name.

This is the source code for the website that is displayed at chrisdown.name. The source is processed using Jekyll.

Installing dependencies

There are Python, Ruby, and Node dependencies. Using bundler's bundle install should give you everything you need on the Ruby side, whereas pip install -r requirements.txt should give you all of the Python dependencies. For node, npm install purgecss.

Deployment

Deployment to S3 and CloudFront invalidation can be done by running rake deploy.

Stripped fonts

I use a small subset of Font Awesome to provide link icons in the header. These are stripped using Fontello to only the icons used to minimise transmission and load time.

I also use two other fonts from Google Fonts: Open Sans and Droid Sans Mono. These are stored locally in WOFF2.

Testing

License

Since this repository contains part code and part content, the contents is split between two licenses, as appropriate for each medium. The code portion is ISC licensed, but the content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. There are other included files in this project that are copyrighted by entities other than myself that use other licenses, too. See the LICENSE file for full details.

chrisdown.name's Issues

Use CloudFront on the fly compression

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/ServingCompressedFiles.html

Double check rendering looks on typical tablets in landscape

Tables scale poorly on mobile

Fix lore.kernel.org patchwork links

This instance is gone as of https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/20/776, the links need fixing.

Change racing PBs/WRs into a table

Test with Fanwood Text

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fanwood+Text

Desktop setup

Use fontsquirrel compressed versions of ttfs

% du -b --apparent-size *.woff2 ~/git/chrisdown.name/fonts/*.ttf
18224	droid-sans-mono-webfont.woff2
14496	open-sans-bold-italic-webfont.woff2
15752	open-sans-bold-webfont.woff2
14416	open-sans-italic-webfont.woff2
15148	open-sans-webfont.woff2
31552	/home/cdown/git/chrisdown.name/fonts/droid-sans-mono.ttf
33108	/home/cdown/git/chrisdown.name/fonts/open-sans-bold-italic.ttf
35924	/home/cdown/git/chrisdown.name/fonts/open-sans-bold.ttf
32852	/home/cdown/git/chrisdown.name/fonts/open-sans-italic.ttf
34156	/home/cdown/git/chrisdown.name/fonts/open-sans.ttf

Make loading Font Awesome non-critical/not affect FCP

Rework Software/Selected talks sections so width changes aren't so jarring

Right now the emdash is all over the place, maybe this becomes an invisible table?

RSS: don't include script/iframe/etc

Show list of active projects somewhere

Test with Sauce

https://saucelabs.com/opensauce/

Separate posts into tutorials and random musings

Do not allow code tags to wrap on dash

Investigate moving to png favicon

The current icon is ~15kb, this might allow us to save a significant amount of that.

Use managed cache

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/using-managed-cache-policies.html

Don't use ul for top left header

This looks weird in w3m.

Post demonstrating using srt/srt-tools

Embed critical fonts in style.css

This allows avoiding more requests/request chaining. The main two are Open Sans and Open Sans Bold.

Consistent interactive shell syntax highlighting

Now we use Rouge instead of Pygments, which has reasonable interactive shell highlighting. It's not always used though, some of them are just unstyled pre blocks.

Use response header policy instead of Lambda

Split CSS into essential and non-essential

This would allow us to defer loading some stuff, like code highlighting.

Only include lite css again if it wasn't included already

Probably can be achieved by checking for an existing id.

Migrate to some Python site generator

This avoids us going through Ruby hell on every install just for this.

Send charset back in Lambda

We define this in the HTML, but this avoids double rendering.

Spinning Wheel when selecting "Toggle Full Screen Mode" Deus Ex [GMDX v10]

Good day,
Deus Ex [GMDX v10]

Trying to save the initial load of the game in Bordered Windows Mode. All I get is a spinning wheel when selecting "Toggle Full Screen Mode". It is acting like it is NOT saving to the GMDXv10.ini file. If I set the parameter BorderlessFullscreenWindow=False when the game loads it is still in Fullscreen. My resolution is also set at:
WindowedViewportX=1920
WindowedViewportY=1080

Any advise ?

Thank you,
E

AST/Phabricator linter post

Use <aside> instead of sidenote