Colophon.

I. SITE

Hosting & Engine

Typography

The $base-font-size is currently set at 20px with the $base-line-height of 1.3, or 26px. 400 and 700 font weights are used for regular or bold text respectively.

All fonts are available from Google fonts

The body text is set in EB Garamond:

EB Garamond is a free and open source implementation of Claude Garamont’s Antiqua typeface Garamond and the matching Italic, Greek and Cyrillic characters designed by Robert Granjon. Its name is an acronym for Egenolff-Berner-Garamond which refers to the fact that the letter forms are taken from the Egenolff-Berner specimen printed in 1592.

The code blocks are set in IBM Plex Mono:

When we set out to create a typeface that was unmistakably IBM, our own history was our greatest source of inspiration. IBM has always served as a medium between mankind and machine. Between the natural and the engineered. The emotional and rational. The classic and the cutting-edge. Our most important job is to help humanity and technology move forward together. IBM Plex® brings these relationships to life through letterforms.

Current Version

21.0

Went live: Paris FR | 2020-05-12 | 22.41.35 UTC+1 Latest Edit: Barcelona ES | 2025-02-28 | 11.45.39 UTC+1

Changelog:

II. TOOLS

Tools are the instructor of man

Hardware

Software

I run macOS 15 and use the macOS GUI extensively but also have CLI-centric habits. I spend most of my time in iA Writer or BBEdit editing Markdown, Safari, or iTerm (shells: zsh/bash). Miscellaneously: I use Anki for spaced repetition⁠, Reeder for RSS, Drafts/Notes.app for clippings/notes, Transmit for remote file transfer, Audirvana for audio media playing, and pen & 100mmx150mm index cards/notebooks/paper for scheduling/reminders.

Sometimes I only have my phone to work with. There are times when this is done on purpose. I have tried to make the environment as similar to my Mac as possible with the notable exception of the CLI tools :(. Drafts and iA Writer exist on iOS thankfully. Browsers are the same. For git on mobile, I use Working Copy.

Analogue

I mentioned above that for scheduling and reminders I use pen/pencil and paper. For many years I was a diehard Omnifocus user and had developed a complex system so that nothing would “fall through the cracks”. However, productivity implemented with complex digital tools always runs the risk of becoming productivity solely for productivity’s sake and I found that as time progressed, I was spending too much time tweaking the system too little time with what was in the system. I was distracted by all of the tempting possibilities that automation brought to Omnifocus. I had been suspicious that going back to basics would be a smart thing to do as I was becoming anxious that perhaps my well-tuned task management system was not as trustworthy as I had believed. I also found it unhealthy that I was waiting for my task manager to tell me what to do rather than doing the stuff in a flexible way.

In 2019 I went back to pen & paper and haven’t looked back. I remember things more easily, I look at my phone or my computer much less than previously, and I am less anxious.

I’ve always got a small notebook and pocket pen with me for general notes or jottings on the go. Task management happens on 100x150mm index cards. I use a cherry-picked aspects of a number of systems that will seem Frankenstein-ish to purists. The basic underlying system is the tickler file. Scheduling happens in a weekly spread agenda. I spend a few minutes in the mornings and/or evenings reflecting on the day–a strong educational and motivational tool.

III. CONTACT