I (Andrew) am a software engineer by education and profession, but I also do a few other things in my spare time. That includes some combination of running, lifting, computer gaming, and cooking.
This page was hand-written by me, Andrew Lalis, to be my personal website on the world-wide-web. It's got all the usual stuff that a personal site should have, like important links and contact details, plus a little series of articles I've written about my experiences with programming, lifting, gaming, or anything else of interest.
As you can see, I'm a fan of the <em>"plain HTML is responsive"</em> school of thought. This website is intentionally very simple in its structure, styling, and interactivity. This is because I believe that the vast majority of the internet's most popular websites sacrifice usability and accessibility to make a flashier product. By using a simpler design, we can help to make the internet more accessible to all, regardless of their physical ability or device's processing power.
<ahref="https://github.com/andrewlalis/sitestat">Sitestat</a> is included on most pages of this website, which is a simple, anonymous, open-source analytics tracker that works by opening a websocket connection and transmitting anonymized, limited data about your visit to this site. I use this just out of curiosity, to see if people actually visit and read the stuff I write here. No data is ever sent to third-parties. Contact me if you have any questions about it!
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