Paul Stamatiou

Built with Next.js2024—Now

Built from the ground up; an entirely new site and design from scratch. Posts are now Markdown based with custom components (MDX files), such as a new photoset component, footnotes, and more. Hosted on Vercel, with most media on CloudFront.

Built with Jekyll (static site generator)2011—2024

Custom theme for the entire period, hosted on a server at first, then with static files directly on AWS S3 with CloudFront, then with Netlify.

Built with WordPress2005—2011

With various themes (K2, my mod Deviance, my theme 281, a modified Thesis theme), hosted on various servers: locally on my G4 Mac Mini, then on MediaTemple.

Now

I recently added a dark mode to the site after migrating to Next.js v15 and Tailwind CSS v4.1. I didn't want to do a basic black style dark mode so I worked on a dark greenish theme that I felt was complementary to the warm light mode theme. Also, I just like green.

I used the View Transition API along with an SVG filter to add a reveal animation to changing the theme. The theme toggle is the system setting by default, then if you click it, it will cycle through light and dark modes. It sets a cookie to store this setting so refreshing the page doesn't result in a flash of the wrong theme.

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finally got around to updating my site to @nextjs 15 + @tailwindcss v4. finally added a dark mode which was quite nice with oklch() + v4 theme vars. i made it greenish to complement my warm light mode. also used View Transition API + svg filter for this theme reveal effect.

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Mid 2024

Over several months in 2024 I began slowly designing and building the current site from scratch. It no longer uses the Jekyll static site generator in favor of Next.js.

Posts are all now converted to Markdown (MDX files); when I was on Jekyll I mostly wrote posts with HTML markup. It's hosted on Vercel, with some media still hosted on CloudFront. More to come about how I built it.