Colophon

A colophon is the small print at the back of a book that tells you how it was made. This is the web version: what runs this site and the tools behind it.

Platform
This site runs on Ghost, the open source publishing platform. I picked it partly because it does publishing well and partly because I wanted to learn something new. Before this I built sites with WordPress, Jekyll and Eleventy.

The theme is based on Source, Ghost’s default theme, and will gradually turn into something of my own.

Hosting
Ghost is hosted on PikaPods, which runs open source apps as managed containers on servers in the EU. PikaPods shares part of its revenue with the developers of the apps it hosts, which I like. The domain is registered with Antagonist, a Dutch registrar, and DNS runs through Cloudflare.

Privacy
There are no ads, no third-party trackers and no cookie banners here. Visitor statistics come from my own Matomo instance, hosted in the EU. It runs without cookies and anonymizes IP addresses, so you can’t be identified or followed across visits or sites. The data stays with me and is never sold or shared.

Writing
I write in Ghost’s editor, usually on a MacBook Air or my Mac Mini. For drafting and editing I sometimes work with Claude, connected to this site through a small, home-made MCP server. It can create drafts but never publish them. Every word that goes live has been read, edited and published by me.

Photography
Unless stated otherwise, all photos on this site are my own. I shoot with a Canon EOS R6 Mark II and RF lenses, and edit in Lightroom. Images are exported for the web, so they load quickly without losing too much of the detail.

The one exception is the cover photo on the homepage. It was taken by a event photographer in Barcelona where I was one of the speakers.

Following along
You can follow this site via RSS or on the fediverse at @camiel@splitsandsprints.net, from Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard or any other compatible app. My Mastodon account, @camiel@schoonens.nl, will stay around for a while.

Content
All words and photos are my own unless noted otherwise. Feel free to link and quote; please ask before reusing photos.