This site first came online around ‘07(!). wow, actually 😅
Once a plain, single, (X)HTML file.
Then, statically generated with Jekyll, running off GitHub Pages.
Then, deleted, lol. And, then, back to plain, basic, vanilla HTML(5). Boring, as most such things should be.
Now, and since 2018, cabgfx.com is:
- Proudly running WordPress
- …sportin’ a hand-rolled ‘Classic’ theme, based off of my WP Theme + Boilerplate (GitHub)
- Developed locally using MAMP Pro
- Hosted for cheapz with Simply.com
- Built by hand in VS Code (and, hitherto, Sublime Text 2 → 3, itself having evolved from O.G. TextMate)
- Type set in Aktiv Grotesk and Verveine, both from the inimitable Dalton Maag
- Web fonts, ashamedly, served by Adobe Fonts (neé Typekit.)
- Caching and frontend performance optimizations courtesy of WP Rocket
- CMS customizations; y’know, all them little big details, come together by way of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
- Newsletter signup form brought to life by Gravity Forms
- WordFence still out here leaving all you motherfuxking script kiddies hangin’ 🖕
- Yoast SEO keeps me compliant with SoME and SEO doctrine 🙄
- CPT UI provides the plumbing for my portfolio — or, rather, my homegrown additions to WordPress’ stock content types (highly overdue for retirement, ever since ACF also does that)
- Vanilla
RedirectRulein .htaccess is plenty well for all my redirect mangling & vanity URL needs - Akismet handles the brunt of incoming on-site spam
- Download Monitor is nice for sealing off publicly inaccessible files, at a baseline, good-enough, level
Also, check out my software defaults, or the gear I keep