yeneko's Den

yeneko's Den was created out of the will to share useful, interesting and valuable things with you online. And those are not only in its articles, but more broadly in all the files that make up the website, like code and fonts, where there's a lot of nice stuff for the more technically inclined. Give it a look! ↗

There are three major technical features I want to point out about it:

• Custom Static Site Builder:
  In order to enable separation of HTML structure from content, I've created a Site Builder in the form of a Bash script that safely assembles the website upon deployment. You will see in the repo that (S)HTML files are neat and tidy. The Builder can even generate an index out of the assembled contents of a webpage and insert it where needed! And just to be safe, all pages are validated as correct HTML in the deployment script to ensure quality.

• A serif font with an artisanal touch:
  As soon as I saw the beautiful Bitter Pro font I fell in love with it. I wanted to use it on my websites, but it isn't technically meant for this usage, plus a hinting quirk in its lowercase ‘g’ bugged me. So I set out to do two things—replace that letter with an even nicer single‐storey version, and optimize the font for the web. It's what you are looking at right now! You can download it and use it in your own projects as well, it's in the repo.

• No Script:
  This website uses HTML and CSS exclusively. Since it is a simple static website, no Javascript is truly needed. More significantly, I think that forcing its exclusion makes you extract the most out of modern HTML and CSS, which are quite powerful on their own, and also focus more on doing things the intended way. Simplicity is quality!