Development

Web Framework

The web framework Astro was used for the development of the site. It is a very simple and lightweight framework. Since this is a static site, no client-side JS is necessary.

Fonts

Atkinson Hyperlegible was used as the primary font. Atkinson Hyperlegible is free to use and visually appealing - but also just really easy to read. So that Google doesn't collect more data than it really needs to, the font is served directly from this website.

Illustrations

The illustrations were downloaded from UnDraw and are also free to use. It's a shame that there aren't more Open Source illustrations available.

Tracking

Umami is used for privacy-friendly tracking and is self-hosted. This avoids the need for a cookie banner and prevents giving Google even more data. However, the Umami application uses quite a lot of resources and might even have a memory leak. A switch to another self-hosted solution in the future is not ruled out.

Hosting

This website is hosted on a Hetzner VPS. A self-hosted Coolify instance is used to make deployments easy. Occasionally, manual updates or container restarts are needed - it is not a 100% hands-off solution, but sufficient for now. The major cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure were intentionally avoided.

The newsletter is using listmonk as a self-hosted newslitter management tool. We always prefer self-hosted, open-source solutions for customizability and in order to avoid giving oher companies your data.