colophon

(printing) A colophon generally contains factual information about the book, especially about its production, and includes details about typographic style, the fonts used[…]

(Internet) A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author’s name and the technologies used.

Tools of the trade, and other recommendations. (Nothing’s sponsored, I just like these things and use them a lot.)

stuff that makes the site

• hosted with GitHub Pages
• built with Jekyll, with gratuitous use of GitHub Desktop and the <5 entire things I know about the command line
• coded in Notepad++

primordial resource amnesty

Resources I used back in 2019, when first creating this site.

• Glitch.com and its live editor was invaluable before I started using Jekyll and the localhost
• “Hello World”: GitHub quickstart guide
• Creating and Hosting a Personal Site on GitHub

other stuff a-flyleaf uses

for making pretty pictures

• 2D tools: FireAlpaca for desktop + MediBang Paint for iPad
  • occasionally random other programs, good ol’ MSPaint, and even actual real-life paper
• 3D forays: Blender and only ever Blender

for building webbed sites

• code-specific: Liquid documentation + API reference; Google fonts downloader; strftime date formatting
• more for visuals: Safe web fonts; WebAIM Contrast Checker; hex color blender
• countless unsung heroes across the internet everywhere (read: whoever showed up in the search results), especially on StackOverflow. I try to link specific pages of use, if only in code comments.

for being saner on the computer

• LibreOffice
• Mozilla Firefox with the following add-ons:
  • for security: Facebook Container + Privacy Badger + NoScript
    (wouldn’t recommend the last one if you don’t know what it’s doing; highly recommend it if you do)
  • for never seeing another godforesaken advertisement again, and generally cleaning up websites with impunity: uBlock Origin
  • for security: Bitwarden
• whichever frontends for giant data-munching sites I can scrounge up from the open source trenches

honorable mentions

Things I used to use, but don’t anymore for whatever reason. Still recommended!

• PX to EM converter + the typographic scale; the former is less relevant in today’s era of cross-device screwery, the latter is a bite-sized design lesson
• Matthew Butterick’s Practical Typography, a solid guide to the type nerd stuff I learned in graphic design school
• Lorem Ipsum generator, the source of many a placeholder paragraph throughout the interweb
• CloudCannon’s Jekyll tutorials, particularly the date formatting table [no longer online, links to archive]
• Firefox add-ons which did not survive a 2026 browser reset:
  • for focus: LeechBlock
  • for archival: Wayback Machine
  • for CSS screwery: Stylus