New personal site, again...

Not my first. Definitely not my last.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve rebuilt my personal site. It’s almost a tradition at this point — every few years I look at what I have, decide it’s embarrassing, and start over.

This time I also changed the domain. I moved from eltioemil.es to e1000.es, which requires some explanation. My ideal domain would have been emil.io — clean, short, .io makes it feel vaguely technical. But some other Emilio got there first. Respect, honestly. So e1000 it is — 1000 replaces the mil in Emilio, since mil means 1000 in Spanish. emil.io → e1000.io → close enough.

For the actual site, I went with the no-style-please Jekyll theme. My previous site had too many attempts at design — the kind of thing you build when you think you can pull it off. I’m not a designer and it showed. This theme solved that by making all the design decisions for me.

I set it up on GitHub Pages and added Docker Compose for local testing. On top of the base theme, I added a few small things:

• Theme toggle — JavaScript that detects your browser’s light/dark preference and stores your choice in a cookie
• Cookie notice — JavaScript-driven dismissable banner, plus a cookie policy page, because now I’m storing cookies
• Back to top button — JavaScript, for longer pages
• Custom 404 page — the GitHub Pages default one is rough

That’s it. Nothing groundbreaking. Just a site. Have a look around and feel free to get in touch if you want to.