I migrated all my repositories over to codeberg from github following a souring I’ve experienced with microsoft products. In short, I don’t like the user experience or the direction the company is going. They’re an industry hegemon so I have to keep some accounts open, but this migration was another step to minimize my presence in places I’d rather not be.
The Good: I’ve had a lot of fun refactoring my website and changing static site generators from Jekyll to Hugo. The refactor allowed me to clear up some tech debt which was haunting me. I commingled a lot of data, code, and presentation on the old website that would have been better separated. I developed the Mondriaan theme which helped me consider my choices with more gravity since the theme should be website agnostic. The separation simplifies website maintenance and allows me to upload more frequently.
Design choices were also revisited after reading through Matthew Butterick’s Practical Typography guide and the Web Accessibility Initiative’s Accessibility Principles. Most notably, this resulted in me narrowing my page width for ease of reading.