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This site is built using Astro, a modern static site generator. The most recent redesign was in 2012, when I introduced Engineer, a static site generator I wrote myself after being inspired by Jekyll, Hyde, and other similar projects. Eventually maintenance became too much, and I sadly had maybe three users at most, including myself, so I decided to switch to Hugo. After porting my custom Dark Rainbow theme from Jinja2 templates to Go templates, I was rather appalled with the verydifferent template system in Hugo. I eventually found Hugo's templating system to be too limiting and frustrating, so I switched to Astro in 2025. But those Hugo build speeds... I miss them.

Design

The site design is based on a now-defunct online magazine I used to read and the sci-fi magazines like Analog that my dad had when I was a kid. The background image is by Klaus Bürgle of retro-futurismus.de.

From 2012 to 2025, the site used a custom theme called Dark Rainbow, which I designed and built myself. It was inspired by the color schemes frequently used by one of my favorite online artists, David Lanham. That design is now archived at https://dark-rainbow.tylerbutler.com.

Typography

The site uses several fonts from Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit):

• Westgate- Main site title
• Adelle- Body text and headings
• Lato- Navigation

Hosting

The site is hosted on Netlify with automatic deployments from GitHub. The domain is registered through Hover.

Source Code

The complete source code for this website is available on GitHub.

Affiliate Links

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