static.html

— a blog about web development and whatnot by Steve Webster

Hi, my name is Steve Webster and statichtml.com is my playground.

I'm the Web Architect at LOVEFiLM, Amazon subsidiary and leading hybrid film & entertainment subscription service in Europe. I spend my days plotting ways to improve the performance, scalability and maintainability of our web platform. I also tinker with new technologies, build proof of concepts, dabble in a bit of R&D, and provide architectural support to our highly talented team of web developers. I write more Perl code than is healthy for someone who prefers HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Prior to LOVEFiLM I worked as a Front-End Architect / Senior Web Developer for Yahoo! in London's fashionable West End.

In my spare time I dabble in occasional bits of iPhone development.

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You can find more of me in the following corners of the Internet:

• pinboard.in/u:spjwebster — semi-interesting links with inline commentary
• twitter.com/spjwebster — links, vitriol and tweeted nonsense
• github.com/spjwebster — Open Source projects
• flickr.com/spjwebster — aspiring amateur photography
• linkedin.com/in/spjwebster — work history
• tapjunkie.com — iPhone development

Technology behind static.html

True to its name, the entire statichtml.com site is served as static content. Of course, I'm not quite mad enough to write all this HTML by hand, so I built lanyon. Lanyon is a pluggable Open Source static site generator (actually a generic content processor pipeline that can be configured to build a website) that I wrote after playing with both Jekyll and Hyde but being satisfied by neither.

Two years after its conception, Lanyon is just about in a place where it can be used for something other than building this website. The source is MIT licenced an on github if you want to tinker.