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The source code for this site is available here. As stated in the site’s footer, this website is built with: Hugo, a static site generator that’s dead simple to use, and Papermod, a theme for Hugo that lets you make elegant, super lightweight websites. My goal in picking these tools was to try to fight, in my own small way, one of the many cancers eating away at the internet, straight out of the Jevons paradox: as bandwidth and server power go up, people make websites optimized like crap, stacked on endless layers of abstraction. Sure, it creates jobs in web dev and lets big companies have fancy 3D product views that animate when you scroll, but the reality is that the internet of the 2020s isn’t really any faster to use than it was in the 2000s: a page still takes several seconds to load and eats up ~5% of your RAM, even though connection speeds have gone from 56 kbps to 300 Mbps (×5000) and RAM from 512 MB to 32 GB (×64). More on that here. ...

Except for Wikipedia articles, which are unlikely to disappear, I have tried to provide as many links as possible in the form of archived links via the Internet Archive. These links look like https://web.archive.org/web/timestamp/https://the.archived.website.com/some/archived/page. The advantage is that you can still access the resource without encountering a 404 error if the original site no longer exists or the page has been moved. Note, however, that the Internet Archive is not perfect and does not save some images or comment sections. For example, in Reddit threads, only the main post is saved, not the discussion. It may therefore be useful to copy and paste only the part of the original URL https://the.archived.website.com/some/archived/page (and pray for the site in question to still exist). ...