Goodbye Cookie Banners, Hello Pure HTML! 🤖

Dec 10, 2025

My previous blogging platform held me back from posting to my blog as I couldn't easily make my posts look as sexy as I wanted: for example, with nice equations, graphs and tables. Additionally, the cookie banner frustrated me, as I have no desire to serve any cookies! 🍪

I was hesitant to switch to another blogging platform or static-site generator because I want my blog to:

Have no dependencies that might break in the future, prevent me from updating the site, or require updates, as I have other interests I'd prefer to spend my scarce time on.
Want infinite customizability without having to wade through confusing configuration screens or documentation.
Serve clean and slim pages and stay up under virtually any request load.
Easily adapt the layout of my site based on the content I create.

I realised that LLMs enable me to write and maintain pure HTML and CSS without the boring effort traditionally required. Since HTML and CSS have been around for a long time, I am confident that I'll be able to update my site in the future. To be ahead of a rogue LLM, I've blocked JavaScript execution in the CSP! 😇

I'll focus on showing off the cool features that drove me to build this solution in this post. In the future, I plan to publish all my source code and share more implementation details. I am pretty confident that publishing posts like this one will be a breeze from now on!

Sexy diagrams & equations

Switch to dark mode

MathJax

Matplotlib

NNSVG

Text-based browsers

Full control over the HTML I serve enabled me to make my pages look exactly how I prefer in text-based browsers.

Semantic HTML

PicoCSS enables me to serve clean and semantic HTML.

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    <span>2025 - Present</span>
    <h3>Senior Staff Engineer</h3>
    <h4>Qualcomm Inc.</h4>
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    <li>Bootstrapped innovation team with senior leadership to support product and research initiatives across
        the business unit.</li>
    <li>Lead innovation-centric prototyping of complex new product features.</li>
    <li>Translate state-of-the-art research into viable new product features resulting in increased
        revenue.</li>
    <li>Rapidly develop and deploy new features for prospective customers.</li>
    <li>Full-stack web application development.</li>
    </ul>
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Superfast & search engine optimized

My pages receive a perfect Chrome Lighthouse score. My HTML, CSS, JSON-LD metadata and RSS feed are valid and compliant.