Yea, I know colophons are a bit eye-rolley, but anyway.
Typeset in Barlow and Barlow Semi Condensed, both produced by Jeremy Tribby and served from Google Fonts. The CSS was initially generated by Gridlover, which I used to set the vertical rhythm, on top of Eric Meyer's Reset CSS.
Astro generates static HTML, served from Netlify with DNS by Cloudflare. The code is hosted on GitHub. It was 11ty until September 2026, and GitHub Pages before Netlify.
This site lived at gavin.is until September 2026. That domain now redirects here, one URL to one URL.
I chose each of these things because they were the simplest things I could find. After talking to Adam Silver who reminded me that the internet hasn't really changed in the last 20 years and all the things we've done to make things better have really just confused things.
I've focused on publishing something over obsessing on the details. That means that the code may be rubbish in places, I'll try and refactor it when I have time. I should also mention my spelling. I'm dyslexic, that makes spelling and constructing sentences that are easy to read challenging. I find it hard to see mistakes at the time of writing.