🌃 Simran's personal website!
This is v4 of my personal website, wherein I also re-uploaded various site files. The largest original part left from previous versions is the project table. This is a handmade site hosted on GitHub (via GitHub Pages) as well as deployed, built, and hosted through Netlify - a basic architecture diagram is provided below.
- The star chart on the website is generated via VirtualSky, a library by Stuart Lowe (and powered by Las Cumbres Observatory).
- The latest game and song information on the website is from Steam and Last.fm, respectively. Steam has a Web API with a function where one can retrieve recently played games from a user. I also listen to music on Spotify, but it was much simpler to connect my Spotify profile to a Last.fm account and then use Last.fm's API to get current song information, rather than use Spotify's API directly.
- To hide API keys and other sensitive user information that was necessary for using the aforementioned API functions, they were made secrets on Netlify's systems and abstracted away using Netlify Functions.
- Site iconography was made using Canva, and the font is Inter.
- Site inspiration from: https://www.yihui.work/ and https://kevinnchen.com/.
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Authors: Simran Thind (@simcard0000)