2025-12-21

The first article: I made a blog

I made this blog, but like anything it was not an original work.

My first "inspiration" was the lovely Better Mother Fucking Website, whom I inspect-element'ed and finessed their CSS. Pretty minimalist to be using a minimal amount of CSS, if I do say so myself.

All of the CSS from Better Mother Fucking Website:

body {
  margin: 40px auto;
  max-width: 650px;
  line-height: 1.6;
  font-size: 18px;
  color: #444;
  padding: 0 10px;
}

I also took inspiration from the article Vanilla CSS is all you need, which basically says: em good, semantic HTML good, and modern CSS functionality good.

I had actually foolishly started making my blog with MkDocs, until a friend put me onto Zola.

My next "inspiration" was to steal code from said friend's theme, which they made for another friend's website.

The Lonely Firbolg homepage

"Steal" is maybe a strong word, I really took the template code and removed the bits I didn't need: probably half of it.

And by the end of it, I'm left with this website you feast your eyes upon now.

Feel free to check out this website's source-code, especially the CSS that's what I like :)

Edit 2025-12-22 (aka the next day lol): Thought I didn't need to steal the <meta> tags from friend's code, but em is inconsistent on mobile browsers without that viewport line 😌