Technology
Permalink to section 'Technology'- Built with the static site generator Eleventy v3.1.1.
- JavaScript runtime: Bun.
- Templating languages: Vento and Markdown.
- Tested browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Vivaldi and Lynx.
- Source code available on my Gitea instance and the repository's GitHub mirror.
Host and Domain
Permalink to section 'Host and Domain'- Hosted on a virtual private server (VPS) I rented from DeluxHost.
- Web server: Caddy.
- The address, blog.helenchong.omg.lol, is a subdomain of my omg.lol address: helenchong.omg.lol, which was registered and purchased on 19 October 2024 for a lifetime membership of omg.lol.
Previously, this blog was hosted on Hostinger's premium shared hosting plan until 14 May 2025, and a VPS I rented from Chunkserve until 27 May 2025.
Plugins
Permalink to section 'Plugins'- Eleventy's official RSS plugin
- Noel Forte's eleventy-plugin-vento
- uncenter's eleventy-plugin-toc
- Luxon
- limax
- sort-by-pinyin
markdown-it plugins
Permalink to section 'markdown-it plugins'Eleventy has the Markdown parser markdown-it built in to render Markdown to HTML.
- Readex Pro — default font for latin alphabets and numbers. CSS stylesheet and WOFF2 font format generated by google-webfonts-helper.
- Intel One Mono — monospaced font.
Branding
Permalink to section 'Branding'- I designed the Galaxy Garden logo and 88x31 badge in Affinity Designer 2.
- I drew the cartoon illustration avatar of myself in Adobe Illustrator CS5, inspired by Andy Carolan's art style.
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