Credits

This site would not have been possible without the help of many open source tools and services, and I’m deeply grateful to all the contributors who have shared their work with the community.

Built with a JAMstack architecture, the site uses Hugo as the static site generator and is hosted on Netlify. It’s served securely via HTTPS, with a free SSL certificate provided by Let’s Encrypt and automatically managed by Netlify for seamless delivery.

Other tools used include:

• Bootstrap Icons for elegant icons
• Geist is the main font used in this website, for the text and the headings, and it is developed by Vercel.
• Geist Mono is the font used in code snippets, dates and labels.
• Gayathri is font for Malayalam posts. It’s designed by Binoy Dominic and built by SMC with the support of Kerala Bhasha Institute.
• GLightbox for opening the photo galleries in the posts.
• Chroma, which comes with Hugo, for colouring the code snippets.
• GoatCounter for counting visits without cookies or personal data.
• Decap CMS for writing posts from the browser.
• Claude Code helped me build the current design.
• Lightbi is the theme used for this website.
• Unsplash is the source of beautiful cover images.

Used in the past

• Inter was the main font used in this website. It’s a beautiful sans-serif typeface by Rasmus Andersson.
• Playfair Display was the font used in the headings. It’s a transitional design done by Claus Eggers Sørensen.
• Dark theme plugin by Radu Matei.
• Bootstrap was used for responsive design. The layout is plain CSS now.
• Libre Baskerville was the font used in the headings. It is developed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
• Medium zoom was used for image zooming in the blog posts.
• fuse.js was used for searching. The search is a small script of its own now.