Personal Website Tidbits

I'm going to share the open-source packages that I've used while putting together my new personal website (philz.work). I’ve been really impressed with the results I’ve been able to achieve in a short amount of time and with a relatively low amount of effort (because, you know, day job and all).

As a somewhat devoted Apple technology enthusiast (and a former software engineer for the company) my goal was to use the technology stack I was familiar with and excited about – and that meant using Swift.

So, the website was – and is – being developed in Swift. This is great, because I hate nothing more than messing with web technologies. (It’s all such an inconsistent mess, and I just can’t handle it! I'm sure you get it.) I use Publish and Plot, along with some customizations I made along the way to support things like posting photography.

I parse the images I add automatically to embed their EXIF metadata like the camera I used (I take all my photos using my iPhone), their original resolutions, etc. The photos are also automatically converted from their ProRAW originals to more web-suitable compressed versions. In the near future, my goal is to allow publishing photos directly from my phone.

The classic Mac OS theme is heavily based on Sakun Acharige's System.css.

I certainly had a lot of fun working on this and exploring the various tools the Open Source community has made available over time. Feel free to explore the website at https://philz.work.

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This post was originally published on December 27, 2022.