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I've got so many domain names (mostly clowes.something). But sometimes I wonder if I should of just used subdomains instead – and had all my various online presences under "one roof". clowes.me, blog.clowes.me, notes.clowes.me, photos.clowes.me, thoughts.clowes.me, etc.#

However, I didn't get the clowes.me domain until... 11 years ago (geez, I didn't realise it was that long ago). But my original personal domain – elliotclowes.com – I got over 19 years ago! That one always felt a bit too long to use for subdomains (blog.elliotclowes.com seems too long).#

Actually, I was lying about this blog not doing anything to make images more efficient in my last post.#

It is! It's reducing the width/height and also doing some sort of compression, I presume. Clever Claude.#

When I create a website I very quickly start adding things which increase the load time. Custom fonts, JavaScript to do various things, complex CSS.#

So I'm rather enjoying how lightweight the site currently is (when there's no images involved anyway. I need so sort something out there, as currently there's no resizing or CDN, just the raw images delivered from a server in the Netherlands). Your average post page is about 6 KB:#

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And there's just two files to load the page – the page itself and the CSS:#

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Will I be tempted to add things? Probably. But there's something magical about how fast it loads right now. Someone could visit my blog on dialup and I'm sure it would load fast still.#

It's almost spooky how quickly things loads. It feels like I'm loading local files.#

I've got quite a fancy – though simple – homepage these days: clowes.me. But I have to admit, I do love those old school simple HTML homepages of old.#

They're often hosted on the domain of the University they work for, haven't been updated since 2007, and have an outdated photo of themself on there.#

Some examples:#

• Kreps#
• Eric S. Raymond#
• Stefano Zacchiroli#

I didn't realise that GitHub has its own version of Patreon: GitHub Sponsors (example of one here)#

There must be 250+ desks at my companies office. Each with two monitors attached to a very versitle arm where you can put the monitors into portait mode. But not a single person has a monitor in portrait mode.#

Maybe they just don't realise it's possible (though after I did it and my boss noticed he let employees know via his technology newsletter that it's possible). But still no one has done it.#

To be fair, I've put mine back in landscape mode. A regular 21" monitor turned sideways isn't wide enough for certain content.#

Google Maps on the web is painfully slow these days. It's close to unusable at times.#