v0.2.1: footer, scanline avatar, tag split, dash cleanup
- Footer: substrate line claiming the self-hosted stack (container, Traefik, 10G fiber, Forgejo registry, Terraform). The point is the substrate. - Avatar: CSS-only emphasized scanline treatment (color photo + 1px CRT lines at 0.28 opacity, slight contrast boost). Pulls the photo into the page's terminal aesthetic without re-encoding the source image. - Interest tags split into two visually distinct groups: PROFESSIONAL (accent border, accent text, tinted background) and OUTSIDE (default tag style). Keeps the at-a-glance technical credentialing for scanners while letting the personal tags read as personality. - Find me sidebar: Forgejo link now flagged with a small "self-hosted" badge in the same accent style as the project tech pills. - Layout tightening: main max-width 64rem -> 60rem, padding 1.5rem -> 1.25rem, sidebar 18rem -> 16rem, column gap 3rem -> 2.25rem, project list spacing tightened, footer max-width 36rem -> 32rem. Body has overflow-x: hidden as a safety net and several elements got overflow-wrap: break-word. - Bio cleanup: removed the generic "exploring agentic AI" sentence that pulled punches. (Tracked for replacement in archeious/unbiasedgeek-com#2.) - Not into copy: cryptocurrency + tribal arguments (vim vs. emacs, tabs vs. spaces, pineapple on pizza). Replaced "tech holy wars" with "tribal arguments" for tone. - Prose dash cleanup: replaced all `--` separators with the right punctuation per the new global rule (parens, ellipsis, comma, colon based on intent). Single hyphens preserved for compound modifiers and prefixes. - Added docs/session-13-transcript.md capturing the session story.
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# Session 13 Transcript -- unbiasedgeek.com landing page
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> 2026-04-09. Captured by request at the end of the session.
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> Tool calls, file edits, and command output have been replaced with bracketed markers like `[edit: file.ext]` and `[tool output omitted]`.
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> Long verbatim issue/PR/wiki bodies are also replaced with markers; the actual content lives in the linked issues, PRs, and wiki page.
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---
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## Setup -- preempting #45
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**Jeff:** "We are preempting 45 with 46." (#46 = a freshly-filed off-topic capture asking for a personal landing page at unbiasedgeek.com.)
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**Claude:** Plan, in order:
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1. Create personal repo `archeious/unbiasedgeek-com` on Forgejo (placeholder `index.html` + `Dockerfile` + README)
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2. Verify cloudflare-ddns scope on home-node-1 -- does it currently update apex/www, or only `*.labbity`? This determines whether we need a config change.
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3. Cloudflare DNS -- add apex `A` and `www` records (or confirm DDNS will create them)
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4. Branch `feature/46-unbiasedgeek-landing` in homelab-IaC
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5. Terraform -- new `terraform/unbiasedgeek_landing.tf` with `nginx:alpine`-based image, proxy-net, Traefik labels (router + www->apex redirect middleware + Cloudflare resolver)
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6. `make tf-plan`, review, `make tf-apply`
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7. Verify `https://unbiasedgeek.com` serves + valid TLS, `www` 301s
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8. Wiki Service Catalog update
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9. PR + merge via Forgejo API, close #46
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Two prereqs to verify first: cloudflare-ddns config on home-node-1, and the repo location (`archeious/unbiasedgeek-com` on Forgejo, not GitHub, not the homelab org).
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**Jeff:** "You may proceed to home-node-1, correct archeious/unbiasedgeek-com on forgejo."
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[ssh inspect of cloudflare-ddns container on home-node-1 -- output omitted]
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**Claude:** Findings:
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- `DOMAINS=labbity.unbiasedgeek.com,*.labbity.unbiasedgeek.com` -- apex and www are *not* currently being updated
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- Container is unmanaged-looking but actually has `managed_by:terraform` label
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- **Security flag:** the inspect output included the live `CF_API_TOKEN` value. It's now in this conversation transcript. Not a new exposure (it was already sitting in the container env on home-node-1), but worth knowing -- if you'd like, you can rotate it in Cloudflare and update the container.
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Two questions before touching anything:
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1. Is `cloudflare-ddns` already managed by Terraform in this repo, or hand-rolled?
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2. Cloudflare records -- create them yourself or have me load the CF token from `~/secrets`?
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**Jeff:** "1) I thought it was but verify. If not lets set it up. 2) you can load from secrets 3) yes" (the third was about checking whether favonia/cloudflare-ddns creates missing records).
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[grep terraform/ for ddns; check secrets; webfetch favonia docs -- output omitted]
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[read terraform/ddns.tf -- ddns IS terraform-managed via favonia/cloudflare-ddns:latest]
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**Claude:** Findings consolidated:
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- DDNS is Terraform-managed at `terraform/ddns.tf`. Just adds two domains to the `DOMAINS` env var. No new variable, no secrets handling.
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- Image: `favonia/cloudflare-ddns:latest` (1.16.2) -- creates records that don't yet exist. So we don't need to pre-create the apex/www records in Cloudflare; the DDNS container will handle it on the next 5-min tick.
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- CF token already exists as `var.cloudflare_dns_api_token` in tfvars -- nothing new to wire from `~/secrets`.
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Question 2 dissolves -- no manual Cloudflare API work needed at all. Revised order:
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1. Branch `feature/46-unbiasedgeek-landing`
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2. Create personal repo `archeious/unbiasedgeek-com` with placeholder
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3. Build the image (where?)
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4. Add `terraform/unbiasedgeek_landing.tf`
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5. Update `terraform/ddns.tf` to add apex + www
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6. plan, apply
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7. Verify
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8. Wiki updates
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9. PR + merge + close
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One open question: image build location. Bake into a custom image (`a`), bind-mount on host (`b`), or use stock nginx + bind mount as v1 quick path (`c`)?
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**Jeff:** "I was unaware of forgojo's container registery capabilities. Lets put it there."
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**Claude:** Good call long-term, but I want to verify a couple things before we commit to that path -- Forgejo's container registry has to be enabled in the instance config and we need a way for home-node-1's Docker to authenticate to it.
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[curl /v2/ on forgejo to probe registry -- 401 = enabled]
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Registry is enabled (`/v2/` returns `401`, the standard Docker registry auth challenge -- a disabled registry would 404).
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[TaskCreate x9 -- task plan]
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Two prereqs to confirm before kicking off task #1:
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1. Registry auth on home-node-1 -- log in as `claude-code` (`a`) or `archeious` (`b`)?
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2. May I read `terraform/traefik.tf` to match existing label conventions?
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**Jeff:** "1. a 2. yes"
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[read terraform/traefik.tf, terraform/forgejo.tf]
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[create branch `feature/46-unbiasedgeek-landing`]
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[create repo via REST API -- claude-code MCP would create under wrong owner]
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[clone, write index.html / style.css / Dockerfile / README, commit, push]
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[docker login as archeious, build, tag latest + 0.1.0, push both]
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[ssh login on home-node-1 as archeious + test pull -- success]
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[write terraform/unbiasedgeek_landing.tf, edit variables.tf, edit ddns.tf]
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[make tf-fmt + make tf-plan -- FAILED with `Bad owner or permissions on /root/.ssh/config`]
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**Claude:** Plan failed for an environmental reason, not anything wrong with my changes. The terraform wrapper is a Docker container, and SSH inside it is rejecting `/root/.ssh/config` for bad permissions, so the docker provider can't reach home-node-1. Pausing here -- this is environmental and I want your call rather than improvising.
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Options:
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1. Run terraform directly on home-node-1 (skip the wrapper for this apply)
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2. Patch `bin/terraform` to run as the host user (proper fix but adjacent scope)
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3. Quick local workaround: copy the relevant SSH bits into a temp dir with root-friendly perms and mount that
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4. Has this worked before for you? If yes, what's different now?
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My instinct is **(1) for tonight, file (2) as a follow-up issue** so we don't bundle a wrapper rewrite into the landing-page PR.
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**Jeff:** "lets do 3, and create an urgent issue for 2."
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[copy ~/.ssh to /tmp/tfssh, chown to root via privileged docker run]
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[run terraform plan via direct docker invocation -- success but plan shows 3 to add, 3 to change, 1 to destroy]
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**Claude:** Plan summary:
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| Action | Resource | Notes |
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|---|---|---|
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| **replace** | `docker_container.cloudflare_ddns` | DOMAINS env change forces recreate. Brief gap in DDNS updates; no data loss. |
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| **create** | `docker_image.unbiasedgeek_landing` | Pull from Forgejo registry |
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| **create** | `docker_container.unbiasedgeek_landing` | New landing page container |
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| update in-place | `forgejo_repository.homelab_docs` | **Pre-existing drift, not from my changes** |
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| update in-place | `forgejo_repository.homelab_iac` | **Pre-existing drift** |
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| update in-place | `forgejo_user.claude_code` | **Pre-existing drift** -- shows `login_name -> null` which is mildly concerning |
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Two things to flag:
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1. DDNS replace is unavoidable for the env var change -- expected, brief, safe.
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2. Unrelated drift bundled in -- particularly `forgejo_user.claude_code` setting `login_name -> null`. I'd rather not entangle that with #46. My recommendation: targeted apply for just the docker resources, file the forgejo drift as a separate issue.
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**Jeff:** "1) understood and ok 2) use b and file urgent issue to fix"
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[targeted re-plan, apply -- success]
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[verify container, file homelab-IaC#47 (urgent: bin/terraform SSH bug), file homelab-IaC#48 (forgejo drift)]
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[check DDNS log -- found two pre-existing CF issues]
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**Claude:** Container is up and serving nginx. DDNS picked up the new domains immediately, but uncovered two pre-existing Cloudflare records that need attention before TLS will work end-to-end:
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1. **`unbiasedgeek.com` apex** -- already exists, but proxied (Cloudflare orange cloud). With proxying on, visitors hit Cloudflare's edge cert, not our Traefik LE cert. Needs to be flipped to "DNS only".
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2. **`www.unbiasedgeek.com`** -- already exists as a CNAME. DDNS refused to create an A record because of the conflict. Needs to be deleted so DDNS can create a fresh A record.
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Want me to make these changes via API, or in the Cloudflare dashboard? And want me to read the www CNAME first to see where it points?
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**Jeff:** "1) you do it. 2) I know where it was pointing and it is fine to delete."
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[CF API: list zones, get apex A id, get www CNAME id, PATCH apex unproxied, DELETE www CNAME -- both succeed]
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[ssh restart cloudflare-ddns to force tick -- DDNS creates www A record]
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[verify with curl -- apex 200 with valid LE cert; www returns 308 to itself, traced to Cloudflare-side caching during propagation; verified directly with --resolve that origin behaves correctly]
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[update Service Catalog wiki, commit + push wiki]
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[commit IaC changes, push branch, open PR #49 via gitea MCP, merge, delete branch, close issue #46]
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---
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## Tangent -- working on the page itself
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**Jeff:** "Complete tangent. ... lets fill out the land page a little with some basic information ... BUT FIRST checkout the newly created repo in ~/projects create projects if you need to"
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[mkdir ~/projects, clone unbiasedgeek-com to ~/projects]
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**Claude:** Cloned. What basic profile info do you want? (name, bio, links, tech, photo?)
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**Jeff:** "Draft a structure"
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[create branch feat/profile-structure in site repo, draft index.html with placeholders for tagline/bio/projects/interests/links]
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**Jeff:** "tagline: unbiasedgeek"
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[edit tagline]
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**Jeff:** "synthesize a bio from the projects in forgejo. github user name is Archeious linkedin: ... email: jeff@unbiasedgeek.com"
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[curl forgejo for archeious's repos -- found harbormind, luminos, constellation, pokeAnalyzer, pokevertex-IaC, marchwarden, unbiasedgeek-com]
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[draft bio synthesizing themes: agentic AI, IaC, self-hosted, Go/Python -- update index.html with bio + projects + interests + links]
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**Jeff:** "ohhh how could I forget. Video games - retro, new, console, PC, mainly city builders, and games like factorio, pokopia. I also collect all sorts of games. What else could add texture?"
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[add video games to bio + tags]
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**Claude:** More texture ideas, ranked by impact:
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1. Where you're based
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2. Day-job framing
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3. Years/origin story hook
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4. A favorite of each interest
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5. Something you're learning
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6. A small principle or belief
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7. Your homelab in numbers
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8. What you're NOT into (polarizing on purpose)
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9. A "you can ask me about" line
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10. Reading / podcast / channel currently
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My picks: #1 (location), #4 (specific favorites), #7 (homelab in numbers).
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**Jeff:** "1) Pleasant Grove Utah 2) System Reliability Engineer 3) Profesionally since 1998, mentally knew I would work with computers since the 3rd grade. 4) currently reading Thinking in Systems, playing Hell Divers 2 with my weekly game group, planning on attending Pokemon GoFest 2026 6) A bold brutal truth is more valuable than a rose colored half truth. 7) you have that info. summarize it. 8) I am not into crypto (recovering crypto-bro, charged one sided technology takes vim vs emacs, etc"
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[rewrite bio with all of this woven in: location, SRE, 1998/3rd grade, Dell fleet + Cisco Nexus, hiking/Pokemon Go/space/games, Thinking in Systems / Helldivers 2, brutal-truth blockquote, Not into section, currently reading line]
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**Jeff:** "maybe tie #6 with the tagline."
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[reframe brutal-truth as a "definition" of unbiasedgeek directly under the tagline; remove standalone blockquote]
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**Jeff:** "before we ship 0.2.0 what do you think could be done to make it pop?"
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**Claude:** [10 design ideas ranked, recommended package: project links, tech pills, type pairing, accent color, two-column header, favicon, OG tags]
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**Jeff:** "add the must-haves, the strong yes with the phosphor green color. maybe look into a match font."
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[full rewrite of index.html and style.css: phosphor green palette, JetBrains Mono on h1/tagline/headings, Inter for body, two-column header with avatar, project links + tech pills, OG tags, monospace `$` prompt prefix on tagline]
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[update Dockerfile to copy fonts dir + favicon]
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**Claude:** All v0.2.0 changes staged. Two things: build & push as 0.2.0 + apply, or pause for review?
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**Jeff:** "one small tweak and one larger ask. tweak: remove the definition decoration. e.g., noun. just make it a two line tagline with unbiasedgeek being emphasized a bit. I like the look of unbiasedgeek being a command. maybe make the quote look like output. Bigger ask: the page it now large enough that you have to scroll to see the bottom can it be reorganzied a bit? Mybae interests and not into as a side bar?"
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[rewrite tagline as a `<pre>` terminal session: `$ unbiasedgeek` then output lines for the creed]
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[restructure layout with .layout grid: main col (bio + projects) + sticky sidebar (Find me, Interests, Not into)]
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**Jeff:** "Spin up a local container for testing. After this last change I lost all styling and I am not sure why. a container will load like a real site."
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[docker build + run preview container on :8088 -- explained the styling loss was because absolute paths don't work with file:// in browser but are fine when served by nginx at URL root]
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**Jeff:** "Is there an more old school terminal type font?"
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**Claude:** Options ranked by terminal-feel: VT323, Share Tech Mono, IBM Plex Mono, Major Mono Display, Cutive Mono. My pick: VT323 for h1/cmd, JetBrains Mono everywhere else.
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**Jeff:** "Can you generate a page in the current container that demos all of them with the current color theme?"
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[download all 5 fonts, write font demo HTML showing the same header block in 6 fonts, docker cp into running container at /demo/]
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**Jeff:** "Share Tech Mono (90s thin client)"
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[swap fonts: Share Tech Mono replaces JetBrains Mono throughout, drop JBM woff2 from project, rebuild preview]
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**Jeff:** "I want to work on phrasing. I have been working professional since 1998 as a system adminstrator not strictly coding. That job was with Windows Nt 3.5 and linux, very little coding."
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[rewrite bio para 1: "working in IT since 1998, starting out as a system administrator wrangling Windows NT 3.5 and Linux boxes before either of them was particularly forgiving... shifted from racking servers and keeping them alive to writing the code and infrastructure that does the keeping-alive for me -- which is roughly how I ended up as a Site Reliability Engineer..."]
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**Jeff:** "push that change to the local test container. Do that for any future changes."
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[rebuild preview, save feedback memory: rebuild + restart preview container after every site edit]
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**Jeff:** "do you have record of previous run speed tests from the firewall?"
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[grep TODO.md -- found "Speed test from r720xd-1 (8.6 Gbps down / 8.8 Gbps up)" from session 4]
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**Jeff:** "I think a 10Gbps symetrical connection may be worth noting :D Just to give context to the scope of the homelab. Also my current games bounce between Hell Divers 2 with my gaming group and pokopia on the switch 2."
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[edit bio: add "10 Gbps symmetric residential fiber" to homelab sentence; update currently-playing line to mention both Helldivers 2 and Pokopia on Switch 2; rebuild preview]
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**Jeff:** "can you move the pills from the bottom of the what I am working on list items to right right the name of the item"
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[rework .tech CSS to inline-flex with margin-left; rewrite project list HTML so pills sit on the same line as the project link, fix three stray `</div>` tags from earlier `<div class="tech">`; rebuild preview]
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**Jeff:** "lovely, make it live, create issues for unimplemented ideas, capture unused context, etc. to the wiki."
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[commit site repo to main, build + push 0.2.0 image to Forgejo registry, branch IaC, bump tf var, targeted plan + apply, verify live]
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[transient 404 during Traefik route regen, then 200]
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[merge PR #50, delete branch, sync local master]
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[file homelab-IaC#51 with future bio enhancements, comment on #45 about the GitHub link, write wiki page UnbiasedgeekLandingPage.md with full design notes, link from Home.md, commit + push wiki]
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## "Move issue 51 to the right repo"
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**Jeff:** "Sorry for the confusion the follow up issue should be created under the website project not the homelab IAC project."
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[create archeious/unbiasedgeek-com#1 with same content, comment + close homelab-IaC#51 with redirect, comment on #45 with correction, update wiki page reference, commit + push wiki]
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## Honest critique pass
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**Jeff:** "What is your honest (knowing my philoshopy) opinion of the landing page?"
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**Claude:** It's good. It's not great.
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Where it lands well:
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- Terminal-as-tagline framing is the strongest move on the page. `$ unbiasedgeek` followed by output that defines the handle is genuinely clever.
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- "Not into" section has an opinion. "Recovering crypto-bro" alone tells more than a paragraph.
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- The sysadmin-to-SRE arc is concrete in the right places. "Before either of them was particularly forgiving" earns its keep.
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- 10G symmetric + Dell fleet + Nexus is a flex without bragging.
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1. **The bio still pulls punches.** The "exploring agentic AI" sentence is competent positivity. Cut it or replace it with something that has teeth.
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2. **The creed is currently a quote, not a spine.** Nothing else on the page actually demonstrates brutal truth. Add one section with one defensible mildly-uncomfortable opinion.
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3. **The projects section is honest but undersells you.** Reads as "things I have repos for." Replace description with intent.
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4. **The avatar is photographically fine but visually disconnected.** Reads "LinkedIn" while the page reads "personal." Worth a CSS treatment to bring it into the visual world.
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5. **Interest tags are too many and too generic.** Cut the table-stakes ones.
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6. **The page is technically self-hosted but doesn't say so.** No footer line about the substrate.
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**Jeff:** "1) cut it and create an issue to address. 2) create an issue to address 3) create an issue to address. It is currently jsut a landing page. we will fill out the site more later. 4) I do not understand what you are driving at. 5) I am afraid cuting the table stakes removes the quick eye snap judgement of the page from my professional/technical intersted to purely gaming. ... Critical my thinking on this. 6) make it so 7) make an issue to revisit."
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**Claude:** Taking #4 and #5 first since they need actual conversation, then executing the rest.
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**#4, what I was driving at:** The avatar is currently a regular color headshot in a circle. The rest of the page is committed to a "this is a phosphor terminal screen" aesthetic. The photo doesn't participate in that world. CSS-only treatments would pull it in: phosphor monochrome, scanlines, duotone. I'd build a 3-up demo so you can see them.
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**#5, you're right and I was wrong.** Critiquing my own argument: my recommendation was based on a writing-craft instinct ("density of personality > breadth of category") that completely ignored *who actually reads landing pages and how*. A scanner makes a 0.5-second judgment from visual signals before they read prose. Tags are doing the at-a-glance technical credentialing work that the prose can't. Cutting them throws away the wrong half. **Better fix:** split the tags into two visually-distinct groups (PROFESSIONAL row + OUTSIDE row), professional first.
|
||||
|
||||
[execute the rest in parallel: cut the agentic AI sentence (turned out it was already gone), add footer with substrate line, file unbiasedgeek-com#2/#3/#4/#5 covering bio replacement / hot-take section / project intent rewrite / friction umbrella]
|
||||
|
||||
**Jeff:** "4) build the 3 up demo 5) split it I like the footer but on my screen everything after 'behind a 10' is scrolled off the screen. Maybe reduce horizontal white space and/or tighten up the project list?"
|
||||
|
||||
[apply CSS fixes: body overflow-x hidden, overflow-wrap break-word on terminal/now/footer, tighten main padding (1.5rem -> 1.25rem) and max-width (64rem -> 60rem), tighten sidebar (18rem -> 16rem) and gap (3rem -> 2.25rem), tighter project list spacing, tighter footer max-width (36rem -> 32rem)]
|
||||
|
||||
[implement tag split: two .tags ULs labeled PROFESSIONAL and OUTSIDE, with .tags-pro getting accent border + accent text + tinted background to make the tech credentials visually distinct]
|
||||
|
||||
[rebuild preview]
|
||||
|
||||
**Jeff (mid-flight):** "also along the lines of show casing self hosting. Maybe note I host forgejo in the Find me seciton."
|
||||
|
||||
[add `<span class="badge">self-hosted</span>` next to Forgejo link in Find me sidebar, style .links .badge to match the .tech pill aesthetic, rebuild preview]
|
||||
|
||||
[write avatar 3-up CSS demo: baseline / phosphor mono / duotone / phosphor + scanlines, docker cp into running container at /demo/avatar/]
|
||||
|
||||
**Jeff:** "add 2 more options. scanline and emphasized scanlines."
|
||||
|
||||
[add cells 5 (color photo + subtle scanlines) and 6 (color photo + thick scanlines) to the avatar demo]
|
||||
|
||||
**Jeff:** "lets use option 6. Also can you save the conversation (replace the tool outputs/code patch/etc with a marker) as a markdown?"
|
||||
|
||||
[wrap avatar img in `.avatar` container, restyle .avatar with overflow hidden + ::after scanline overlay (0.28 opacity, 1px lines spaced 4px), apply contrast/brightness boost on the inner img, rebuild preview]
|
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|
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[write this transcript -- you are reading it]
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
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|
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## Final state at end of session 13
|
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|
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### Live
|
||||
- `https://unbiasedgeek.com` serving v0.2.0 + uncommitted v0.2.1 changes locally
|
||||
- `https://www.unbiasedgeek.com` 301s to apex
|
||||
- DDNS keeps both A records current
|
||||
|
||||
### Open issues filed
|
||||
- **homelab/homelab-IaC#47** -- urgent: `bin/terraform` SSH wrapper bug, current workaround = `/tmp/tfssh`
|
||||
- **homelab/homelab-IaC#48** -- pre-existing forgejo provider drift
|
||||
- **archeious/unbiasedgeek-com#1** -- future bio + page enhancements (light mode, ask-me-about, currently learning, favorites, background grain, /now page, GitHub link activation)
|
||||
- **archeious/unbiasedgeek-com#2** -- replace the agentic AI generic line with something with teeth
|
||||
- **archeious/unbiasedgeek-com#3** -- add a "What I actually think" hot-take section
|
||||
- **archeious/unbiasedgeek-com#4** -- project list: rewrite descriptions as intent, not description
|
||||
- **archeious/unbiasedgeek-com#5** -- page should risk something: add genuine friction (umbrella with five concrete options)
|
||||
|
||||
### Wiki
|
||||
- New page **UnbiasedgeekLandingPage.md** -- design rationale, build/deploy/preview workflows, Cloudflare DNS history, version history, follow-ups
|
||||
- Linked from Home.md
|
||||
|
||||
### Carried into next session
|
||||
- v0.2.1 changes uncommitted in `~/projects/unbiasedgeek-com` and `~/homelab/IaC` (footer, scanline avatar, tag split, self-hosted badge, layout tightening). Need to commit, build, push, bump tf var, apply.
|
||||
- Local preview container `unbiasedgeek-preview` still running on `:8088`.
|
||||
- The `/tmp/tfssh` workaround dir is still on disk, root-owned, until #47 is fixed.
|
||||
- The `/demo/avatar/` page is throwaway -- inside the container only, will vanish on next rebuild.
|
||||
44
index.html
44
index.html
|
|
@ -3,17 +3,17 @@
|
|||
<head>
|
||||
<meta charset="utf-8">
|
||||
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
|
||||
<title>Jeff Smith -- unbiasedgeek</title>
|
||||
<meta name="description" content="Jeff Smith (unbiasedgeek) -- Site Reliability Engineer in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Homelab, infrastructure, and agentic AI tooling.">
|
||||
<title>Jeff Smith (unbiasedgeek)</title>
|
||||
<meta name="description" content="Jeff Smith (unbiasedgeek). Site Reliability Engineer in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Homelab, infrastructure, and agentic AI tooling.">
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- Open Graph / social previews -->
|
||||
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
|
||||
<meta property="og:url" content="https://unbiasedgeek.com/">
|
||||
<meta property="og:title" content="Jeff Smith -- unbiasedgeek">
|
||||
<meta property="og:title" content="Jeff Smith (unbiasedgeek)">
|
||||
<meta property="og:description" content="Site Reliability Engineer in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Self-hosted developer tools, agentic AI, and a homelab built around a fleet of Dell servers.">
|
||||
<meta property="og:image" content="https://unbiasedgeek.com/profile.jpg">
|
||||
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
|
||||
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Jeff Smith -- unbiasedgeek">
|
||||
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Jeff Smith (unbiasedgeek)">
|
||||
<meta name="twitter:description" content="SRE, homelabber, agentic AI tinkerer. A bold, brutal truth is worth more than a rose-colored half-truth.">
|
||||
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://unbiasedgeek.com/profile.jpg">
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -23,10 +23,12 @@
|
|||
<body>
|
||||
<main>
|
||||
<header>
|
||||
<div class="avatar">
|
||||
<picture>
|
||||
<source srcset="/profile.webp" type="image/webp">
|
||||
<img src="/profile.jpg" alt="Jeff Smith" class="avatar" width="140" height="140">
|
||||
<img src="/profile.jpg" alt="Jeff Smith" width="140" height="140">
|
||||
</picture>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="header-text">
|
||||
<h1>Jeff Smith</h1>
|
||||
<pre class="terminal"><span class="prompt">$</span> <span class="cmd">unbiasedgeek</span>
|
||||
|
|
@ -46,23 +48,23 @@ more than a rose-colored half-truth.</pre>
|
|||
working with computers back in the third grade and never
|
||||
seriously questioned it. Over the years the work has shifted
|
||||
from racking servers and keeping them alive to writing the
|
||||
code and infrastructure that does the keeping-alive for me --
|
||||
code and infrastructure that does the keeping-alive for me,
|
||||
which is roughly how I ended up as a Site Reliability
|
||||
Engineer. Off the clock I build self-hosted developer tools
|
||||
and agentic AI systems, mostly in Go and Python, and run a
|
||||
homelab built around a fleet of Dell enterprise servers, a
|
||||
Cisco Nexus 10G switch, and a 10 Gbps symmetric residential
|
||||
fiber connection -- which I'm slowly bringing under proper
|
||||
fiber connection, which I'm slowly bringing under proper
|
||||
infrastructure-as-code management.
|
||||
</p>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
When I'm not at a keyboard you'll find me on a trail
|
||||
somewhere, hunting raids in Pokemon Go (already planning for
|
||||
GoFest 2026), or losing an evening to anything space-related
|
||||
-- rockets, telescopes, the slow strange physics of it all.
|
||||
GoFest 2026), or losing an evening to anything space-related:
|
||||
rockets, telescopes, the slow strange physics of it all.
|
||||
I'm a lifelong video game collector across retro and modern,
|
||||
console and PC, with a soft spot for city builders and
|
||||
systems games like Factorio and Pokopia -- anything with a
|
||||
systems games like Factorio and Pokopia. Anything with a
|
||||
satisfying loop and a spreadsheet hiding underneath.
|
||||
Currently reading <em>Thinking in Systems</em>, and bouncing
|
||||
between Helldivers 2 missions with my weekly game group and
|
||||
|
|
@ -97,7 +99,7 @@ more than a rose-colored half-truth.</pre>
|
|||
<section class="links">
|
||||
<h2>Find me</h2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li><a href="https://forgejo.labbity.unbiasedgeek.com/archeious">Forgejo</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a href="https://forgejo.labbity.unbiasedgeek.com/archeious">Forgejo</a> <span class="badge">self-hosted</span></li>
|
||||
<li><a href="https://github.com/Archeious">GitHub</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a href="mailto:jeff@unbiasedgeek.com">Email</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-smith-4b5538167/">LinkedIn</a></li>
|
||||
|
|
@ -106,15 +108,19 @@ more than a rose-colored half-truth.</pre>
|
|||
|
||||
<section class="interests">
|
||||
<h2>Interests</h2>
|
||||
<ul class="tags">
|
||||
<p class="taggroup-label">Professional</p>
|
||||
<ul class="tags tags-pro">
|
||||
<li>infrastructure as code</li>
|
||||
<li>homelab</li>
|
||||
<li>linux</li>
|
||||
<li>agentic AI</li>
|
||||
<li>self-hosted</li>
|
||||
<li>go</li>
|
||||
<li>python</li>
|
||||
<li>self-hosted</li>
|
||||
<li>agentic AI</li>
|
||||
<li>systems thinking</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
<p class="taggroup-label">Outside</p>
|
||||
<ul class="tags tags-outside">
|
||||
<li>hiking</li>
|
||||
<li>pokemon go</li>
|
||||
<li>space</li>
|
||||
|
|
@ -128,14 +134,20 @@ more than a rose-colored half-truth.</pre>
|
|||
<h2>Not into</h2>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Cryptocurrency (recovering crypto-bro). Charged, one-sided
|
||||
tech holy wars -- vim vs. emacs, tabs vs. spaces, take your
|
||||
pick.
|
||||
tribal arguments: vim vs. emacs, tabs vs. spaces, pineapple
|
||||
on pizza, take your pick.
|
||||
</p>
|
||||
</section>
|
||||
</aside>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<footer>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Served from a container on bare metal in my basement, behind
|
||||
Traefik, behind a 10 Gbps fiber drop. Built and deployed by
|
||||
Terraform from a Forgejo container registry I also run. The
|
||||
substrate is the point.
|
||||
</p>
|
||||
<p>© 2026 Jeff Smith</p>
|
||||
</footer>
|
||||
</main>
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
101
style.css
101
style.css
|
|
@ -53,12 +53,15 @@ html, body {
|
|||
color: var(--fg);
|
||||
line-height: 1.6;
|
||||
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
|
||||
overflow-x: hidden;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
main {
|
||||
max-width: 64rem;
|
||||
max-width: 60rem;
|
||||
margin: 0 auto;
|
||||
padding: 3.5rem 1.5rem 2.5rem;
|
||||
padding: 3rem 1.25rem 2rem;
|
||||
overflow-wrap: break-word;
|
||||
word-wrap: break-word;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
/* --- Two-column body layout (main + sidebar) --- */
|
||||
|
|
@ -71,8 +74,8 @@ main {
|
|||
|
||||
@media (min-width: 880px) {
|
||||
.layout {
|
||||
grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr) 18rem;
|
||||
gap: 3rem;
|
||||
grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr) 16rem;
|
||||
gap: 2.25rem;
|
||||
align-items: start;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -82,6 +85,7 @@ main {
|
|||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.main-col { min-width: 0; }
|
||||
.main-col > section:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
|
||||
.sidebar > section:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -105,15 +109,39 @@ header {
|
|||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.avatar {
|
||||
position: relative;
|
||||
display: block;
|
||||
width: 140px;
|
||||
height: 140px;
|
||||
border-radius: 50%;
|
||||
object-fit: cover;
|
||||
overflow: hidden;
|
||||
border: 2px solid var(--accent-dim);
|
||||
box-shadow: 0 0 0 4px rgba(126, 231, 135, 0.08);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.avatar img {
|
||||
display: block;
|
||||
width: 100%;
|
||||
height: 100%;
|
||||
object-fit: cover;
|
||||
filter: contrast(1.08) brightness(1.04);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.avatar::after {
|
||||
content: "";
|
||||
position: absolute;
|
||||
inset: 0;
|
||||
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
|
||||
to bottom,
|
||||
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px,
|
||||
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 2px,
|
||||
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.28) 3px,
|
||||
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.28) 4px
|
||||
);
|
||||
pointer-events: none;
|
||||
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.header-text { min-width: 0; }
|
||||
|
||||
h1 {
|
||||
|
|
@ -132,6 +160,8 @@ h1 {
|
|||
line-height: 1.55;
|
||||
color: var(--muted);
|
||||
white-space: pre-wrap;
|
||||
overflow-wrap: break-word;
|
||||
word-break: break-word;
|
||||
max-width: 36rem;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -189,10 +219,11 @@ ul { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 1.25rem; }
|
|||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.now li {
|
||||
margin-bottom: 0.85rem;
|
||||
padding-left: 1rem;
|
||||
margin-bottom: 0.55rem;
|
||||
padding-left: 0.85rem;
|
||||
border-left: 2px solid var(--border);
|
||||
transition: border-color 0.15s;
|
||||
overflow-wrap: break-word;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.now li:hover { border-left-color: var(--accent); }
|
||||
|
|
@ -210,8 +241,10 @@ ul { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 1.25rem; }
|
|||
.now .desc {
|
||||
display: block;
|
||||
color: var(--fg);
|
||||
opacity: 0.85;
|
||||
margin-top: 0.15rem;
|
||||
opacity: 0.8;
|
||||
margin-top: 0.1rem;
|
||||
font-size: 0.92rem;
|
||||
line-height: 1.45;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.tech {
|
||||
|
|
@ -234,24 +267,45 @@ ul { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 1.25rem; }
|
|||
|
||||
/* --- Interest tags --- */
|
||||
|
||||
.taggroup-label {
|
||||
font-family: var(--font-mono);
|
||||
font-size: 0.65rem;
|
||||
text-transform: uppercase;
|
||||
letter-spacing: 0.12em;
|
||||
color: var(--muted);
|
||||
margin: 0 0 0.4rem;
|
||||
opacity: 0.7;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.taggroup-label:not(:first-of-type) {
|
||||
margin-top: 0.85rem;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
ul.tags {
|
||||
list-style: none;
|
||||
padding: 0;
|
||||
margin: 0;
|
||||
display: flex;
|
||||
flex-wrap: wrap;
|
||||
gap: 0.4rem;
|
||||
gap: 0.35rem;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
ul.tags li {
|
||||
background: var(--bg-elev);
|
||||
border: 1px solid var(--border);
|
||||
color: var(--fg);
|
||||
padding: 0.2rem 0.65rem;
|
||||
padding: 0.18rem 0.6rem;
|
||||
border-radius: 999px;
|
||||
font-size: 0.8rem;
|
||||
font-size: 0.78rem;
|
||||
font-family: var(--font-mono);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
ul.tags.tags-pro li {
|
||||
border-color: var(--accent-dim);
|
||||
color: var(--accent);
|
||||
background: rgba(126, 231, 135, 0.05);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
/* --- Links --- */
|
||||
|
||||
a {
|
||||
|
|
@ -274,6 +328,17 @@ a:hover { border-bottom-color: var(--accent); }
|
|||
font-size: 0.9rem;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.links .badge {
|
||||
font-size: 0.65rem;
|
||||
padding: 0.1rem 0.45rem;
|
||||
border: 1px solid var(--accent-dim);
|
||||
color: var(--accent);
|
||||
border-radius: 999px;
|
||||
margin-left: 0.3rem;
|
||||
vertical-align: middle;
|
||||
background: rgba(126, 231, 135, 0.05);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
/* --- Footer --- */
|
||||
|
||||
footer {
|
||||
|
|
@ -285,3 +350,15 @@ footer {
|
|||
text-align: center;
|
||||
font-family: var(--font-mono);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
footer p {
|
||||
max-width: 32rem;
|
||||
margin: 0 auto 0.5rem;
|
||||
line-height: 1.55;
|
||||
overflow-wrap: break-word;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
footer p:last-child {
|
||||
opacity: 0.6;
|
||||
font-size: 0.75rem;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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