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Off topic, but I’d just like to point out how blindingly fast this site loads: it loads quite literally instantly for me (I’m on mobile so I can’t give precise figures) but I don’t think I’ve ever used a site that loads that fast ever before.

Is the website author here? What are you running server side that’s giving such great performance?

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Only two requests: favicon and html page itself. No front-end framework, no tracking. The only JS is the 10 lines necessary for the buttons in the upper right corner.

Gosh I wish more websites were this minimal. It's refreshing to use something so streamlined.

What cokml19 said, it’s all about minimising the work. This is just a normal Jekyll site hosted on github pages, but with just minimal css and js inlined into the page. There are actually a few more lines of js hidden around the place, e.g. for adding the “play” buttons onto the code snippets, but it’s all simple library-less code.

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