This website makes use of code, content, and ideas from a variety of sources. Even the most DIY endeavor is at least partially based on the work of others!
Inspirations
The overall idea of this website is based on ideas from the IndieWeb movement
The "Now" page is inspired by nownownow
The "Achievements" page is inspired by the idea of collecting and displaying badges. Specific apps and services that influenced me include Untappd, Foursquare, Habitica, and Micro.blog
Code
This website runs on WordPress. The theme started as Sempress, but I've very heavily modified it to taste. The design and content of the following websites have greatly inspired my website's look and feel:
- Eli.li
- Chris Aldrich
- Aaron Parecki
- Tumblr
- Bandcamp
For security reasons, I won't list all the WordPress plugins I use for my site, but here are some that greatly contribute to its utility:
- The IndieWeb collection, especially Post Kinds, Micropub, and Syndication Links
- Gamipress
- Custom Post Type UI (for creating taxonomies like "projects" and "albums") to organize my content
Tools
I use many different tools to interact with my website. Some of them are:
- Micropublish
- Quill
- Omnibear
- Shortcuts for iOS
- WordPress for iOS
- Indigenous for iOS
- Icro for iOS
- iTerm for Mac, using ssh to connect to my server and vim to edit text
- Tiny Tiny RSS (for reading articles and sharing to the site via micropub)
Media
- The image on the front page (me in front of my modular synthesizer) is by Eric Tank. He's great, check him out!
- most of the badge images used in my gamification project are from the fantastic diy.org
- Some of my album art comes from Wikimedia commons (sources noted when used)
- My reading list comes from GoodReads
- My listening list comes from Last.fm