About

All the boring stuff. Legal, colophon, changelog, and maybe more.

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Contacts: This website is administered by myself, Goulven CLEC'H, domiciled in Toulouse, France. Contact me by email. This website (and related services) is hosted by Netlify, domiciled in San Francisco, California, USA. Contact them by email.

Data & cookies policy: This website does not use cookies. It does not collect any personal data. Analytics are anonymized and aggregated.

Licenses: The source code is provided under the 0BSD license, attribution is appreciated but not required. The textual content is provided under the CC BY 4.0 Deed, attribution is required. But for both, you are free to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute for any purpose, commercial or personal.

Some entries may cite text, images or resources from external sources. Their original licenses apply, and I indicate the authors if known.

Philosophy

This is my digital garden, where I'm the gardener and the main visitor.

It's a place to experiment freely: with technology, with ideas, with how things can be built. At the same time, it's a long-term archive of my growth, both technical and personal... with the secret hope that it might be useful to others too.

That tension between exploration and durability shapes the project. The codebase should be kept typed, tested, and well-organised. The content should be honest, open, and useful. Simplicity and reliability are what let the garden keep growing.

Colophon

Typography: I mainly use EB Garamond by Georg Duffner, a beautiful free and open-source serif typeface based on the 16th century designs of Claude Garamond. In code snippets, I use Monaspace by GitHub Next, a beautiful open-source monospace superfamily with texture healing. And finally, annotations are set in Abby by "Your Own Font Foundry", a cute handwriting typeface (not free).

Technologies: This website is built with Astro, I wrote a bit about this static website generator in a dedicated blog entry. Notable dependencies include Tailwind CSS for styling, expressive-code for code blocks, sharp for image processing, and medium-zoom for image zooming.

Inspiration: A mishmash of inspiring links, in alphabetical order, Aurélien Dos Santos, Corrode, Edward Tufte, Erika, FrostKiwi, Gwern Branwen, Hundred Rabbits, Incremental Forgetting, Kalele (Vaughn Vernon), Mage, OlegWock, Pilcrow, Practical Typography, StaffEng, Stripe Press, Will Larson.

Changelog

An historic of this website, its new features and page redesigns, with examples.

March 2026

  • Friends: A new page to explore my and my friends' websites as an interactive graph, powered by GraphGarden ☞ Friends

December 2025

  • New code font: Iosevka has been replaced by

    Monaspace by GitHub Next, a beautiful monospace superfamily with texture healing.

November

  • New covers: All blog entries now have more consistent and refreshed cover images, both in light and dark mode ☞ Return home

July

  • Annotated images: with numbered markers and a legend to point out specific details, like this example from « Media catalogue with Astro and Turso »:
    A screenshot of a review card, annotated with numbered markers 123546 1 Poster or cover 2 Title and initial release year 3 Rating emoji and verb 5 Emotions 4 Review content 6 Review date
  • Blog search and filters: Refactored the blog home page to have a search bar and filters, similar to the catalogue page. This is stateful, so you can share links with the current filters applied, bookmark them, or use your browser's back and forward buttons ☞ Return home

April

  • Catalogue: A personal experiment where I keep track of books, movies, songs, video games, and other media I consume. Keep in mind that this is a personal catalogue, incomplete and biased ☞ Catalogue

January

  • Dark mode pictures: Most of the pictures will now have a dark mode version.

December 2024

  • Refreshed look: A lot of small changes have been made to finish the year in style. Everything should feel more polished and consistent.

September

  • Sidenotes: Allows me to add source references or personal notes to an entry.

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    1 – Inspired by this article from my friend Aurélien ☞ Dos Santos A. (2024). Des sidenotes pour le web Source

July

  • Personal annotations: Allows me to add

    personal highlights or corrections to an entry. They use the handwriting font Abby (paid, starting at 4.69 €).And they look great!

  • Refreshed look: Colours have been updated, as well as some layout elements.

    Source Serif 4 has been replaced by EB Garamond (free).

January

December 2023

  • Changelog: Show the latest changes on the about page.
  • System theme: A new option to switch between light and dark mode based on your system theme ☞
  • Rss feed: If you don't want to miss anything, subscribe!
  • About page: Added with the legal notice.
  • Source button: Added on entries images.

October

  • Navigation buttons: Added a back to top and a return home button.

June

  • New design: A simpler, neater design.
    A screenshot of this blog's homepage

April

March

  • Tags pages: now blog entries can have tags, you can see all related entries on their tag page ☞

    software engineering, coffee

    Those pages are deprecated, you can now use filters on the blog page. Example with coffee
  • Dark mode: switch between light and dark mode in one click ☞

February

  • Creation: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an Astro project! 🚀

Before 2020

  • Legacy: My website was a simple HTML/CSS page presenting myself, with a language selector in JS ☞ Source code.
    • Screenshot of my old website