I handmade this entire site (you probably couldn't tell), but it may
soon be due for a rehaul.
I am especially proud of this site as it's something that I put lots of effort into - especially making it mobile friendly. Keeping it small and simple was one of my main priorities.
I had previously set up the hosting for this website the hard way, using an EC2 instance based in Singapore 🇸🇬 which I manually configured with HTTPD, renewing the SSL certificate myself manually in order to enable HTTPS. Fun stuff! I leant a lot setting that up, however I have since changed the hosting solution to a more simple deployment with less maintainance required.
At some point, I hope to get around to upgrading this site to use some flavour of web framework, likely when it becomes too much hassle to manually update the html myself. I'm reluctant to use something like wordpress as I don't want to abstract too much away.
This site is hosted on Cloudflare, which is a CDN (Content Delivery Network) that enables fast load times by caching this sites data in various locations around the world. All for free!
The site itself was crafted by hand with just HTML and CSS, and was designed to be lightweight, simple, and minimal. If you want to take a look at the raw HTML yourself, the site is publicly available on my github here. Although, you would yield identical results just opening the web inspector here, as there's no JS, or typescript compiling, or anything fancy going on behind the scenes, just pure HTML.