Notes on performance, toolchains, and the occasional rabbit hole. Zola 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://alecto.dev/atom.xml 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 Alecto Irene Perez https://alecto.dev/posts/about-this-site/ <p>A few bits of information that may be of interest.</p> <ol> <li> <p>This site is built with <a rel="external" href="https://www.getzola.org/">zola</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Cloudflare Pages is used to host &amp; deploy the site: when I push changes to github, those changes are deployed live, usually within a couple minutes (it is very convenient).</p> <p>I recommend it for anyone with a static site because (1) it’s free, and (2) it has very nice integration with github. push-to-deploy is <em>so</em> nice, and it accepts custom build commands.</p> <p>The support for custom build commands is quite nice, because…</p> </li> <li> <p>After the site is build with <code>zola</code>, a script is used to append a hash to all urls which point to resources hosted under <code>alecto.dev</code>. This allows me to (1) enable caching, and (2) ensure that all visitors receive the most up-to-date version of stylesheets, images, and other assets, without the need for custom image shortcodes.</p> <p><img src="https://alecto.dev/posts/about-this-site/cloudflare-build-config.png" alt="Screenshot of build configuration for the site" /></p> </li> </ol> <p>… This last bit is a small technical detail that I’m proud of. Being able to use the standard markdown image syntax instead of <code>{{ image(path="images/my-photo.jpg", alt="Description of photo") }}</code> or <code>get_url(path=path, cachebust=true)</code> is <em>quite</em> nice.</p>