Scraped my handrolled grid and colors for Utopia and Adam Argyle's color scheme builder.

I’m still not sure how I want this site to look, but I’ve been more focused on a foundation and less on content and “design.” I like simple. I’m not sure if what I’ve done is simple, more like raw. But I have fallen in love wtih Utopia and this color scheme builder from Adam Argyle. What I like about both are they aren’t “frameworks” or “libraries”. It’s all just CSS custom properties that you can use in however you mark up your templates platform agnostic.

Utopia has a PostCSS plugin however it didn’t work for me. I put off debugging that for a future project and copied and pasted the generated properties. I also need to do some more reading about subgrid as I’m not sure it behaves how I expect.

I found Adam’s post after reading about color-mix palettes. But I like how Adam’s system has worked out text vs background and handles light and dark themes. All based on the HSL values for a primary—brand—color. I’m a prefers-color-scheme: dark user, so extra apologies to anyone viewing this in light mode. But now I can start to think about content and how I want to post. I’m thinking Indiekit. Paul just published an Eleventy preset plugin. Really just need to get it up and running.

Which I’ll end with a reminder from Jeremy Keith from his IndieWebCamp wrap-up (organized by the aforementioned Paul Robert Lloyd)—“What you do with your own website is entirely up to you.”

@todo: fix webmention display
@todo: resolve permalink for notes (unix timestamp from gitCommitDate is fragile in CI/CD)