This site is built with Jekyll, a static site generator, and is hosted on GitHub Pages. It uses a forked version of the Simply Jekyll theme. The theme is open source and available at Jekyll Garden.
Content is written and organized in Obsidian, a note-taking app based on plain text. The typefaces used are Public Sans and Manjari, chosen for their clarity and warmth. The domain is currently managed via Namecheap.
Acknowledgements
Big thanks to everyone who helped me along the way:
- Anivar Aravind got me started by setting up hiran.in back in 2008.
- Santosh Thottingal introduced me to digital gardens, which inspired this site.
- Hrishikesh Bhaskaranencouraged me to try static site generators and GitHub Pages.
- Anish Sheela helped with hosting and showed me the basics of JavaScript.
- Ershad K guided me through Jekyll and Ruby.
- Asim K T designed the first HTML version and taught me CSS Flexbox and Grid.
- Binny V A A has been a constant collaborator in my digital garden experiments.
- Abhinav K E helped build the frontend in 2024.
Inspirations
- The minimal homepage was inspired by Paco.
- The reading log idea came from Matthew Ström.
- Anthony Hobday sparked the idea of trying async coaching.
- The “Now” page inspired by Derek Sivers and nownownow.com.