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How this site is built.

What this site is

sebthecanadian.ca is a personal site — a stable identity page with durable links to the places I publish and work. It houses projects, writing (syndicated from the garden), a resume, and the usual /now and /uses pages.

Where the real writing lives

The primary body of notes and writing lives in the garden: cognitivearchitecture.ca. Writing is syndicated here as excerpts via the POSSE model (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere).

Stack

• SSG: Eleventy (11ty) 3.x
• Templating: Nunjucks
• Styling: Vanilla CSS with custom properties — no Tailwind, no preprocessor
• Fonts: IBM Plex Mono (headings + code) + system font stack (body)
• Content: Markdown + YAML front matter + JSON data files
• JS: Progressive enhancement only — zero JS in the critical path

Hosting and deployment

• Hosted on GitHub Pages via a GitHub Actions build pipeline.
• Custom domain managed via Cloudflare DNS (DNS-only records).
• HTTPS enforced at the GitHub Pages layer.

Design approach

• Data Druid aesthetic: forest palette, pixel-art accents, warm parchment light mode, "forest at night" dark mode.
• Semantic HTML with microformats: h-card, h-entry, h-feed, h-resume.
• Webmention discovery for IndieWeb interoperability.
• Accessible: skip links, focus-visible styles, WCAG AA contrast.
• Portable by default — easy to migrate to another host or SSG.

Contact

Email: hello@cognitivearchitecture.ca