About me
I started building websites on Geocities at the age of 10, graduating over the years to various questionable free hosting sites, .tk domains, Greymatter-powered personal sites hosted on other people's pretentiously-named .org domains, and eventually over-engineered Wordpress blogs. It was inevitable that I'd end up doing it for a living.
By day I do computer things for profit, but by night I make music with Mixtape. I also enjoy gardening, baking, dogs, crafting, mechanical keyboards and video games.
I don't check social media much, so if you want to get in touch send me an email: sophie@localghost.dev.
About this site
As well as being somewhere I occasionally write things, this site is a throwback to the time when web design was a bit more maximalist than it is now, and websites were collections of weird little code snippets you picked up on your internet travels. Though hopefully it's a little more accessible than sites were back then.
It's built using the static site generator Eleventy.
You're welcome to steal any code from this site, just promise me you'll have a go at making it your own and not just copy it straight up. The source code is public on Github.
Like many other people in the early 00s, I learnt to build websites by clicking View Source, copying bits I liked, then changing them slightly (that, and absorbing the contents of lissaexplains.com). It's a bit more complicated than it used to be, but I still strongly believe in learning from others and passing it on.
If you encounter any accessibility/usability issues while on the site, or any images used without permission/proper credit, please do let me know and I'll fix it ASAP.
Credits
Garden theme
- Foliage and foxgloves: 100 nature things by shubibubi
- Flowers: brysiaa
- Grass tileset: Bonsaiheldin / comp3interactive
- Soil pattern/fossil: adventurekid
- Clouds: justajoke
- Bird: Pop Shop Packs
- Font: Pixel Art Serif
