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title = "Wesley Moore"
description = "TODO"
description = "Posts by Wesley Moore"
# Whether to automatically compile all Sass files in the sass directory
compile_sass = true

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title = "About"
date = 2020-01-27T08:38:24+11:00
[extra]
show_date = false
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![Photo of me in Nepal](../images/Photo%20of%20Wesley%20Moore.jpg)

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It's been more than 10 years since I started working on [the previous design]
for this website 😅, although it won't have been public for 10 years until July
2020. This feels like a good point to come up with a one!
for this website 😅. This feels like a good point to come up with a one!
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The previous design served me well. The uncluttered design focussed on text was
fast and responsive. It saw the introduction of new devices like iPad and a
gradual increase in mobile display size without needing updating. The new
design aims to retain these features while giving it a lighter feel. I'm using
the [Manrope] variable font for all text.
Technology wise, the previous site was built with [Nanoc], a Ruby static site
compiler. I've been very happy with Nanoc. As my programming interests have
shifted away from Ruby to Rust in the last decade I wanted to try a Rust static
site compiler. The site is now built with [Zola]. Zola is perhaps not quite as
flexible as Nanoc but I've been able to achieve everything I wanted to with it.
It's super fast and has nice conveniences like live-reload when editing
content. Being a single file native binary also makes installation
straightforward — no need to juggle Ruby versions or install gems.
design aims to retain these features while giving it a lighter, more modern
feel.
Inspired by [Chris Krycho] and [Shaun Inman] I've taken to versioning the
website instead of attempting to port all the existing content over to the new
technology. This makes the redesign more of a clean slate and leaves old posts
appearing how the did when originally posted. The new site is hosted under the
`/v2/` prefix. This allows all existing pages to stay where they are and
retains the `www.wezm.net` domain.
retains the `www.wezm.net` domain. Compared to using a sub-domain it doesn't
mess with DNS or search ranking. I have put redirects in place to direct the
RSS feeds from the previous version to the new feed.
Finally, I've now open sourced [the repository][repo] that the site is generated from. This
is to allow others to see how the site is built and also to submit corrections/fixes
if they're noticed.
The new design uses the [Manrope] variable font for all text. Variable fonts
are a fairly recent addition to the web platform but they have good support
from fairly recent versions of all modern browsers and operating systems. On
older browsers/operating systems the layout will fall back to a sans-serif font.
Webfonts generally come with a non-trivial download cost. However, Manrope is
108kB and being a variable font that includes all weights between 200 and 800,
as well as italic!
Technology wise, the previous site was built with [Nanoc], a Ruby static site
compiler. I've been very happy with Nanoc over the years but as my programming
interests have shifted away from Ruby to Rust I've wanted to try a Rust static
site compiler. I'm now using [Zola]. Zola is perhaps not quite as flexible as
Nanoc but I've been able to achieve everything I wanted to with it. It's super
fast and has nice conveniences like live-reload when editing content. Being a
single file native binary also makes installation a breeze — no need to juggle
Ruby versions or install gems.
Finally, I've now made [the repository][repo] that the site is generated from
public. This is to allow others to see how the site is built and permit
corrections/fixes via issue or pull request.
[Chris Krycho]: https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2019/my-final-round-of-url-rewrites-ever.html
[Shaun Inman]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160422175043/http://shauninman.com/archive/2006/12/04/the_original_heap

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<h2>
<a href="/{{ page.path }}">{{ page.title }}</a>
</h2>
{% if page.extra.show_date | default(value=true) %}
{% if page.date %}
<div class="post-metadata">
<div class="date-published">
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