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About
This is a personal weblog rather than a portfolio site. You can expect to find a mix of things I think about and what I’m up to, etc. I’ll try to update this website as often as I can to reflect my current state of being. There will probably be frequent design tweaks here and there.
Technical
This website is built with Next.js, styled with Tailwind CSS, deployed to Vercel. Design draft was made in Figma, but later iterations were prototyped directly from VS Code and Cursor. Notes are written in markdown. For analytics, I use Umami to collect privacy-friendly data. Images are processed with Photoshop. My domain anh.ng was registered with Infomaniak. Thanks to Cody for the domain name suggestion and technical help in the making of this site.
Typography
Fonts in use:
- Herbik by Counter Forms
For headings and body texts. - JetBrains Mono by Philipp Nurullin
For page titles and subtitles.
A small note on Herbik: when using font identification extensions like Font Ninja, it reads the regular and bold weight as an unlicensed trial version, even though I used the purchased font file. I’ve seen the same thing happen on another website also using Herbik, but I haven’t figured out whether it’s Font Ninja or the file naming issue. But bear with me, this is perfectly legal!!
Writing
For now, the writing on this website is mostly casual, with minimal editing. I use my personal style guide to keep things consistent. Here’s a part of it:
- Use sentence case for titles, headings, and most list items.
- Use em dashes without spaces.
- Use en dashes to specify a range.
- Linked text should describe the content of the link or the result of clicking the link. Do not use arbitrary terms like this.
- End sentence list items with periods.
- Periods go inside quotation marks.
- Use title case for titles of books, movies, artworks, products.
- Italicize titles of books, movies, artworks.
Influences
People whose vibes and styles have influenced the execution of this website in one way or another.