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h1 garrettmills
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h2 technical details for nerds
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p This page contains a smattering of technical information that I think some people might find interesting, but not enough people for it to be included on the main page.
h3 Framework
p This site is built with Extollo, my free & libre application framework. You can learn more about Extollo here.
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h3 The Background Animation
p The cascading code animation you see on some pages of this site is generated using real code pulled from my personal repositories.
p When you access a page, the backend for this site calls an API endpoint on my Gitea server to load a code snippet from a random file.
p Then, that snippet is converted to a double-layer SVG. The animation comes from automatically generating a series of CSS animation steps using nth-child(...)
CSS calls on the various text-stroke lines.
p (Try "view page source" on the main page to see an example.)
h3 Analytics
p This site, and some of the others in my *.garrettmills.dev
platform record pseudo-anonymous page-view information. In particular, it stores:
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li Remote hostname
li Incoming IP address(es)
li Request method
li Original request URL
li Whether or not the request was XHR
li Timestamp of access
p Collecting the above information helps me gauge the rate-of-access of various pages on my platform over time.
p My analytics system is home-grown, intentionally, to record just the information I wanted to use. So, I avoid collecting any additional information than is necessary for my purposes.
h4 Opting-Out
p Status: !{isOptOut ? 'You have opted-out of page view recording' : 'Will record page views'}
p Even though my analytics-system is geared towards individual privacy and minimal obtrusiveness, you can still opt-out to avoid having your page views recorded for *.garrettmills.dev
sites.
p To do so, click here.
h4 Collection Methods
p It's not super relevant to the privacy aspect, but for those who are curious, I record page-views two different ways:
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li On first-party garrettmills.dev
pages, the page-views are recorded on the back-end when the page is served.
li For other *.garrettmills.dev
pages (like my static host, CoreID, and Noded), a short script makes a request to a CORS-enabled endpoint to record the view.
p When you opt-out of page-view recording, this site sets a CORS-compatible cookie analytics.optout
in your browser. If the analytics endpoints detect this cookie, the page view will not be recorded.