Me
My name is Oliver Goodwin-Day, and I am currently a second year student at the University of Sheffield, studying Computer Science. I like to walk and swim in my free time, and am a qualified lifeguard!
This site
This site is heavily inspired by Windows 98 and sites of the early noughties. It is intended to be as simple and elegant as possible - whilst also utilising only HTML and CSS (No Javascript here) as an oppose to the bloated JS-framework heavy sites of the modern era.
I used the excellent Eleventy (11ty) static site generator, allowing me to rapidly develop this site and not get bogged down with state management or component hierarchies. JS Frameworks have their places; but a simple site like this is not one of them.
Along with this, I used modern browser technologies such as WOFF2 format fonts and WebP images to reduce load times and data transfer
As such, this site is incredibly lightweight and fast - most pages are about 50 kB in size and load in less than 200 milliseconds on a decent connection.