Why?
- — Well, first of all, it's beautiful...
- — Second, everything starts with a blank page;
- — You can visit it to save electricity[1];
- — That's a whole 1,000,000 perfectly white pixels and only 800 gray ones[2].
- — (!) Since June 9, 2022 the site supports dark mode automatically. How do you get across the idea of the lightest homepage without blinding a dark-mode user? A flashlight!
Seriously, though:
- — The truth is, I'm just a bad designer;
- — It was high time I finally made myself a website;
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— But for all its simplicity, it's a very useful page, because:
- — It used to be an OpenID provider*;
- — It carries my basic personal information in the hCard microformat and the newer h-card (validate it with the occasionally glitchy hCard validator or the h-card one, or parse it with the Google Structured Data Testing Tool), as well as in JSON-LD;
- — Following the Pavatar spec, it hosts my photo (validate);
- — It links to a FOAF file that will aggregate social connections from facebook.com, twitter.com, mirtesen.ru, moikrug.ru, livejournal.com, etc. (validate);
- — It scores 100% in the Google Chrome Lighthouse audit for Performance, SEO and Best Practices[3].
- — The gray pixels aren't gray by accident: since May 2022 they have exactly enough contrast to meet WCAG 2.1
What's next?
- — More to come;
- — The whole layout will be redone, scripts and CSS minified, content gzipped, images optimized;
- — Then a “Résumé” section will appear, synced automatically with MoiKrug.ru, Hh.ru and LinkedIn.com;
- — I'll add a section of articles that go over every pixel and byte of this site in detail;
- — Plenty of ideas; I'll make them happen.
Meanwhile, you're welcome to visit:
My profile on LinkedIn.com (rarely updated)
Experiments:
- — World Trade Center panorama: a large photo viewed like a map (Leaflet) — zoom and drag;
- — Flax flowers: for comparison, a plain image;
- — The wandering 404 page[5];
- — The dark mode flashlight: switch your system to dark mode and move the cursor over any page of the site.