Version 6

2016 - 2018

This was a home grown version of a static site generator, because, why not? I stripped down the visual style on this version (or, more accurately, I didn't bother building it back in).

• Gulp: While I often just go NPM scripts, this is handy for the metadata it uses about files. Plus, the plugin community is strong (and it's a lot faster than Grunt).
• Digital Ocean: Quite reasonably-priced cloud hosting
• NPM: Package manager extraordinaire
• CloudFlare: DNS and performance tuning of the site.
• Atom: I moved from Sublime to Atom after Sublime 3 was in beta longer than it's plugins and just became frustrating.
• ImageOptim: Great GUI for batch lossless compression of various image formats.
• ImageAlpha: Still one of the best lossy PNG compressors that does PNG8+alpha transparency.
• Git: This tool has changed how I work and allows me to be productive no matter where I am.
• Docker: Containerization has really simplified how I deploy and portability of my site.
• ESLint: Linting protects and style checking makes my code conform to standards.
• SVG: From svgo to svgstore, vector graphics have really crispened up my site.