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How this site is made, for the curious and for future me.

Writing #

I write in PaCord, my own headless fork of Pagecord, a small blogging app built with Rails. It runs on a server of mine with a Postgres database. Posts come from its editor, from an email to a private address, or from any Micropub app.

Building #

When I publish, PaCord sends a webhook to a little builder that turns everything into a static site with Eleventy. Search comes from Pagefind, the share images are drawn during the build, and nginx serves plain files. If a build fails, the last good version stays up.

Looking #

Text and titles are set in New Spirit, the small print in IBM Plex Mono. The colours are a lime and a violet on warm paper, and the dark mode follows your system. The logo is a colour version of an ink portrait.

Reading it elsewhere #

Every page has a terminal edition, so try curl pablomurad.com. The posts are also on Gemini and Gopher, there are feeds in RSS, Atom, JSON Feed and a few odder formats (see feeds), and new posts can arrive by email.

Talking back #

Comments, hearts and replies by email are handled by PaCord itself, with no third party in between. Posts go out to Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr, and the replies there come back as webmentions. Tags are shared with the Octothorpe Protocol.

What is not here #

No cookies, no ads and no third-party trackers. Visits are counted by GoatCounter, which I run myself and which keeps nothing personal. Those totals, and everything else I count, are on the numbers page.

Source #

The code for this site and for PaCord is private; I keep it for my own use. What changed and when is in the changelog.