This Website

16 Jan 2026

This is my personal website. So far it's been mostly miscellaneous web pages. But lately I've been thinking I should add more written content.

This Blog

Blog is an abbreviation of "web log". Blogs today are usually serious works of writing, but in the past, a web log was just whatever the site owner decided to write down that day. This blog is more like a web log.

It's popular for blogs to have a specific purpose or theme. I don't think this blog will have a theme other than that it's written by me.

Verbosity

I can make no pretense to having the gift, possessed by
few, of locking in happy phrase a difficult and complex thought. What I have tried to do is to group all the more important facts in logical order, not to write a book but to deliver a message. If any lay down the book disappointed with its inadequacy, I can only plead that the subject is vast both in detail and dimension. I have done not what I had hoped, but what I could. I heartily wish that my effort may stimulate someone to do it better.

If you find me writing in a verbose style, like in this blog post, I'm probably not trying to get any specific point across. My writing style is much more condensed when a specific point needs to be made. There's a time and a place for every verbosity level though.

Words today are more abundant than ever. When I see a wall of text in 2026 I immediately suspect that it was not written by a human. So just FYI, my walls of text are 100% organic.

This Website's Style

Why does it look so old?

Web design is 99% typesetting, the art of deciding where, when, why, and how text should appear on a page. There's a lot more to it than you might expect. Especially in the web browser, where a page can be any size and contain any content.

The remaining 1% of web design is mostly about colors, laughing images shrug , borders, and other visual elements. Mostly useful to establish a brand. But this is a personal website, and I'm not so interested in branding myself.

I prefer the default solution on my personal site. It's surprisingly practical.

This Website's Name

My last name is Giroux. It's difficult to read, spell, pronounce, and remember. My Giroux lineage has been American for a long time, but -oux names just don't anglicize very well. What would it even be? Jiroo? yuck.

So I've never gone after a domain name like timgiroux.com. If I told someone, audibly, to go to timgiroux.com, they would never be able to spell it!

When I say, "go to gtim.xyz", it's crystal clear.

This Website's Implementation

Markdown is cool. But you know what's even cooler? HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

This site uses banhus, a static site generator I created.