Website last updated: March 2026
This website has never been particularly pretty or complex. It was historically a simple place to put things so I didn't forget them. Like a cheat sheet for some things as I'd started using them. The colour scheme has always been black, white and grey.
Here is the history of this website, in reverse chronological order.
Wanting to re-work this website to compliment the new Shortdark, I decided to also use a different framework. One option was Next.js, but I've used that quite a lot elsewhere so I went with SvelteKit (along with TailwindCSS) as I hadn't used it before despite hearing very good things about it.
Link: https://2025.nlud.uk/
Still using ReactJS and TailwindCSS, re-jigged to focus more on myself and removed the old code reference pages as they were very old indeed. There was an in between stage where the code reference was demoted but still visible, but it was messy, and at some point they went entirely. Still hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront but probably more comfortable with the using the two together, and the AWS IAM side these days.
Link: https://2022.nlud.uk/
Mainly as a learning exercise, I re-coded this website in ReactJS with some TailwindCSS styling. I also had a look at, and modified, the AWS setup. The website was converted to run on AWS S3, CloudFront and CloudFront Functions with CloudFlare on top. While in 2020, I focused a fair bit on the JS and CSS, and an equal amount on the AWS side, in 2022 I mainly explored the AWS side.
Link: https://vue.nlud.uk/
I decided to update the website in 2020 as jQuery was out-of-fashion. I'd recently built another test website with Gatsby, which is a React-based static site generator, so I decided to instead build this website in VueJS, Bulma.io and Font Awesome.
It was based on a VueJs tutorial that was for tab-based navigation. From there I added a Favicon, made the copyright year dynamic and split the content into different Vue files. Changed the domain to nlud.uk (from nlud.co.uk) and moved the website to AWS S3 with CloudFront, WAF and Lambda@Edge, all behind CloudFlare. It was still a very simple website but it was much better than it used to be.
Link: https://nlud.uk/001/index.html
By 2018 I had added quite a bit more information which was still displayed in a long list down an HTML page. At this point, I decided to hide everything and create a jQuery navigation. When the site loads you just see the seven headers listed vertically, by clicking each arrow you can display the content of that section. The website used jQuery, Bootstrap and Gylphicons. The jQuery was very simple and clear, the content was stored in include files, and I'm not too embarrassed by the end result in terms of coding. The design could always be better but I'm not a designer.
Link: https://nlud.uk/000/index.html
In 2016, this website was very basic indeed and just had some Linux and Nano information on an HTML page with some vertical navigation through anchor tags.