Angus Lam

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Why does the site look like a default nginx page?

I have very fond memories of snooping autoindex pages on poorly configured servers back in the late 2000s. It's hard to find those nowadays. "Browser default" HTML also has a brutalistic and uninstrusive quality in the comtemporary time. It has allowed me to focus on creating more novel works rather than tweaking every pixel on this site to stylistically tie together everything I work on, no matter how disparate, in a futile manner. That is not to say there's no styling here—every detail is still meticulously chosen. I could have went for a more conventional modern minimalist design, but what's the fun in that?

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