Tag: website
busy bee
These last few days, I've been working on Khmer Archives, editing the layout, making the banner, and uploading my Women of Cambodia posts (which was a pain in the butt, but I did it!!). I've always wanted to have my educational/cultural posts hosted somewhere besides Instagram. It'll be a long term project, something I'll chip at bit by bit. I'm just happy I finally got this project off the ground!
ewanc26 profile refresh
The GitHub profile README gained streak, activity, and AT Protocol stats badges, and wolfram was added to the stack.
Xmit Might Be My New Favorite Static Site Host
Comparing Xmit to Netlify, Vercel, and Render for static site hosting: simple GitHub Actions deploys, easy redirects, and refreshingly little platform overhead.
inkwell-website
Landing page and OAuth metadata host for the Inkwell iOS app.
faol-website
Website for faol, a digital person. Published with Sequoia.
Enabling Webmentions in Build Awesome (11ty)
How I added webmentions to my Eleventy site with Bridgy, webmention.io, a GitHub Action, and Netlify — coding in public, mistakes and all.
Website design formalisation and verification badges
Wrote DESIGN.md to codify the website's design intent, standardised motion easing, added verification badges with profile cards, and unified the modal architecture.
it's a hot hot summer!
It's a hot summer, so why not stay indoors and do some coding?! As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to get back into coding - which I did! - and I've been tinkering with my website for the last few days. My layout style is very basic and that's because I wanted it to look like layouts from the early '00s when self-hosted personal blogging was at its height (and when I joined the community). Our blog banners were known to be heavily edited with Photoshop brushes, textures, layers of colors. So, this layout is reflective of that!
Recent Infrastructure and Feature Updates
A summary of significant infrastructure improvements and feature updates made between June 3 and June 6, 2026.
Brand Kit Page and Footer Contact Email
Added /site/design as a brand reference and a contact email to the site footer.
Vercel 504s: CDN Caching, Timeout Guards, DID Caching
A second pass at the 504 problem — Cache-Control headers for Vercel's edge CDN, AbortController timeouts on external fetches, and a DID document cache.
Mitigating 504 Gateway Timeouts
Addressing persistent 504 Gateway Timeout errors on Vercel by optimising AT Protocol data fetching.
Website Pagan Symbols and Support Overhaul
Integrated mystical pagan symbols into UI and overhauled support page with new patronage components.
Es geht voran
Jeder muss seine eigenen Erfahrungen machen, heißt es doch oft. Auch ich hatte mir alles zurechtgeplant, was den Bereich Fotos auf meiner Website betrifft: Vorgehensweise so ähnlich, wie man es bei Instagram, Pixelfed und Co. machen würde. Das heißt: Neuer Beitrag, Fotos rein, vielleicht eine kurze Beschreibung und Post! Das Foto wird über das ActivityPub-Plugin...
Support Page Modernization & Build Refinement
Refactoring the support page with patronage components and resolving build failures.
Mystical Symbols & Drifting Paths
Integrating pagan symbols into the website UI with randomized drifting animations.
A /memory route and fediverse presence for the FAOL website
Added a GitHub commit timeline to the FAOL website, plus an llms.txt file, RSS feed fixes, fediverse integration, and layout refinements.
Website: view transitions, scroll animations, support page
Added View Transitions API crossfades, scroll-triggered section reveals, a dedicated support page, and seasonal colour theme lock-in
Docsite: Opal docs, client bundle perf, devlog sidebar
Added Opal documentation, eliminated 1.3MB client bundle from markdown/atproto deps, and added devlog link to sidebar
the big claude down
two months, a holiday, and a lot of Claude: a terrifying predicament
Cross-references and unified support links
Added More tools sections linking each project to the other four, and pointed all support links to ewancroft.uk/support
OG hero images across all five projects
Added hero SVG OG images to malachite, opal, jasper, bismuth, and tourmaline landing pages
Performance audit and fixes across all three sites
Docsite client bundle dropped from 1.3MB to 12KB, devlog layout data optimised, website duplicate fetches eliminated
devlog: Dynamic OG image generation with @ewanc26/og
Each devlog post now generates its own OG image on demand using @ewanc26/og — warm amber on dark, with noise texture.
Website: Wheel of the Year seasonal themes with auto-midnight updates
Colour themes now follow the Wheel of the Year — eight distinct themes for each sabbat, shifting automatically as midnight crosses into a new period.
Website: Seasonal Theme Reset
The colour theme picker now shows when a seasonal theme is active and lets you lock it in explicitly.
Website: Support modal spun out to its own page
Moved the support modal from a footer overlay to a standalone /support route, matching the site's page pattern.
Timeline Scroll Reveal Fix
Every devlog entry was invisible on load — $state on an IntersectionObserver variable caused the effect to disconnect it before it could fire.
Devlog Modularisation
Split the monolithic layout.css and inline page logic into focused modules and components.
Website — Animations and Micro-interactions
Animation foundation with easing tokens, staggered entrances, scroll reveals, and View Transitions API.
Real-time Updates via Jetstream Firehose
Hooking the site up to the AT Protocol firehose for live-updating feeds and dynamic view transitions.
The Great Astro Rewrite
Porting the entire site from SvelteKit to Astro for ultimate static performance and a terminal-inspired layout.
Website — Tangled Integration and Removal
Added Tangled repository displays, then removed them when the service was no longer needed.
Website Commission Template
A SvelteKit + Tailwind CSS starter template for Ko-fi website commissions, with CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing.
Supporters, Popfeed, and Donation Addresses
Ko-fi and GitHub Sponsors webhooks, Popfeed review cards, and crypto donation addresses.
@ewanc26/wafrn-theme
A WAFRN theme using the pds-landing Catppuccin terminal aesthetic — dark forest-green palette, JetBrains Mono, soft rounded cards.
docsite
Source code for docs.ewancroft.uk — a documentation site for ewan's projects, built with SvelteKit and published via Sequoia.
Website — OG Images, Work Page, GitHub Integration
Dynamic OG images, /work route for Sifa professional profile, and GitHub metadata integration.
Webfinger and Noise Avatars
Webfinger well-known routes for fediverse resolution and deterministic noise avatars for AT Protocol fallbacks.
@ewanc26/noise
Generic deterministic value-noise generation. Arbitrary dimensions, multi-octave FBM, multiple colour modes. Zero dependencies, works in browsers and Node.js.
@ewanc26/noise-avatar
Deterministic value-noise avatar generation from a string seed — thin wrapper around @ewanc26/noise, works in browsers and Node.js.
@ewanc26/supporters
SvelteKit component library for displaying Ko-fi supporters and GitHub Sponsors, backed by an ATProto PDS.
@ewanc26/pds-landing
Composable Svelte 5 components for an ATProto PDS landing page — terminal aesthetic, live status fetching, zero config to drop in.