About this website

modified 2026-04-13

I am well aware that the pages of my website do not have a consistent layout. This is a deliberate choice after several years of using different static site generators and also writing some of them, taking inspiration from several prolific blog writers¹. SSG are tremendously useful when you have a lot of pages with a consistency need. For instance, if you write a regular (and regularly updated) blog or want to list the products of your company, then this is a very valuable choice (along with using a traditional CMS like WordPress and the like). This is not the case of this website (and in fact I believe of many personal websites), where you may mix some contents, have mini-website inside it, and so on.

In 2026, I decided to simply use an agent to handle most of the housekeeping along with some scripts that I was already using for previous versions. This means I can simply generate a new page for an event (like this one) without asking myself how to bypass the SSG way to handle non-regular assets. I can write in tex and generate the pdf associated and an html page. I can write in markdown, in org-mode or just put a plain text file. Most of the time, the source file from a page can be found by simply adding a “.md” instead of “/” to the url. Of course, this is also doable with a SSG, but at the price of increased complexity over time. This choice is a lazy one, hence a good one.

I edit text either in Emacs, or VSCode, or Typora depending on the day. Some drafts were started in Obsidian or Notes.app. I proofread either directly in a one these app for spelling, and sometimes drop the full text in a chat interface (ChatGPT or Claude). I used to use Grammarly, but don’t think they are as useful as before LLMs-era.