- The Hugo static website engine to generate the website
- Git (quite obviously) to manage the code and content
- A text editor, currently Emacs
- GNU Ispell to spell-check my website's content
- My custom shell
- Inkscape to manipulate SVG images
- Imagemagick to create smaller thumbnails of the images in the posts
- Exiftool to manipulate JPG metadata, like the copyright notice
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Website building tools:
- Real Favicon Generator is an awesome generator of the right way to create the favicons for your website
- google-webfonts-helper is an extremely useful tool that organizes a Google Font and its CSS code to self-host it easily
- Can I use tests if an HTML, CSS, JS feature is supported by the most common browsers
- CSS Lint can find errors in the CSS code
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Website speed and quality tests:
- Varvy: it has different tests for SEO, speed and mobile and many many suggestions on speeding up your website
- Google PageSpeed Insights
- Pingdom Tools
- GTmetrix
- Web bloat score calculator compares the size of your website with a screenshot of it. If the picture has smaller size than the code, the website is bloated.
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Compression and minimization:
- CSS Compressor can minify your CSS easily
- Inline SVG Optimizer made my logo 50% smaller
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HTTPS and security:
- SSLlabs.com is the leading test on the web to check your SSL/TLS certificate
- Securityheaders.io check and teaches you about HTTP headers you can use to improve your website's security
- The Hugo Zen theme by Rakuishi (MIT License) which I customized
- The Social/Contact icons from the Decode theme for Wordpress by MachoThemes, such as the contact icons and their code. Note that Decode is under the GNU GPL v3 license, which requires this blog's code and theme to be under it as well.
- Some Markdown licenses by IQAndreas
- Google Fonts: Roboto Regular by Christian Robertson (Apache v2.0 License) and Inconsolata Regular by Raph Levien (Open Font License v1.1)
- Highlight.js Javascript and CSS code by Ivan Sagalaev (BSD 3-clause License)
- Base16 Atelier Forest Light Highlighting CSS by Bram de Haan (MIT License)