The Site

This is the latest version of my personal site, a simplified portfolio and introduction to my music work using a web domain that I registered over 15 years ago. It started out as a hand-crafted static webpage using HTML in a basic file tree structure, and in September of 2025 it underwent a complete refactor.

The Tech Stack 

This website is an open-source, static multilingual SSR (Server-Side Rendering) landing page built with the ProcessWire CMF, hosted on Dreamhost, and uses a completely custom theme coded by hand using the Latte templating system, HTML and CSS. It is built and deployed using Duplicator over SFTP with Transmit. Version control is managed through GitHub. The IDE development environment combines macOS, MAMP, Tracy Debugger, nnn, and Cursor. No cookies, tracking, or ads are used. 

In the future I may use Plausible for basic, privacy-first web analytics. 

The Design

The intentions behind the design adhere to Radical Simplicity principles, minimalist aesthetics, and legibility. Rockfrontend is used for markup generation and utilizes the UIKit front-end framework. The type is set in Nyght Serif by Maksym KobuzanIt. The footer logo is a Julia fractal designed by Ben Olsen. 

The Newsletter

This website's infrastructure also allows me to self-host a personal newsletter detailing my professional activities. It uses ProMailer in conjunction with WireMailgun to deliver email to a mailing list. The benefits of this setup are that I can engage with solutions provided by services such as Mailchimp without the recurring fees associated with those services. Furthermore, I am able to manage multiple subscriber lists from my own server, which offers more control over emails and subscriber data than is possible with third-party services. When you subscribe to my newsletter, your data is secure, and communication flows directly from me to you. The newsletter is also made available as an RSS feed.

The Wiki

This site contains various links to a different domain, which I have also registered: gavart.ist. It is a personal wiki which serves as a more robust, complex, and complete archive of my work; something akin to a digital garden and public second-brain. The wiki is developed with the Node.js version of TiddlyWiki, and is organized with a rigorous tagging schema, complete with forward and backlinks between notes and collections. It is in active development.