Simplicity of This Web Site

Resulting HTML

• No JS, no tracking, no custom fonts
• No external CSS
• Minimal styling
• This page weighs just 3K

The largest part of the CSS is the styling of the navigation bar. I could have went with a line of text links separated by spaces, but I wanted to have a clearly visible navigation at the top. Using such a small amount of CSS also removed the need for any CSS preprocessors like Sass.

Generation

• Lightweight markdown (smu)
• Minimal templating
• No dynamic content, just static files
• Use existing Unix tools (sh, sed, optionally entr)

Downsides

• Current page is not highlighted

Suggestions on how to add these in the most simple way are welcome!

Source code

See all the details in the source code at https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin.