About
I’m Arie, and this is Arie’s Blog, my personal website.
Welcome!
About me
I’m a software engineer from Sydney. I’ve worked with a lot of Go, Typescript, and PHP. Sometimes it runs on a laptop, sometimes on an EC2, and sometimes it runs in Kubernetes. My professional interests fall under the umbrella of “software engineering”: technology, people, and managing complexity. But I also appreciate user interface design (it needs to be functional, accessible, and beautiful) and commercial awareness (whether we are burning money by building this). Outside of software I’m an espresso enthusiast and amateur photographer, and I’m also into running, cycling, and blogging.
Click to view my photography gallery.
About this site
It’s built with the Hugo static site generator, using a theme I created called etch-less-coffee. It’s named that way because it was originally a fork of the etch theme—barely anything remains now.
Comments are powered by my own comment server called gomments. Names can be followed by a # symbol and some free text, which generates a tripcode and renders your comment with one of sixteen colours.
My favorite part about this website is that the pages are served via a Cloudfront distribution backed by S3. It would be cheap-er if not for the minimal compute and static IP required to host gomments.
By the way I’m testing out some illustrations from Notioly. I love the notion-style illustrations and I think they give great character to the website. I’ll try the free ones for a while as I think about buying the full pack. I’d love the bike-related or dog-related illustrations.