--- Title: Special Thanks Status: hidden Date: 2021-07-22 Modified: 2025-02-17 --- ## An extra-special personal thanks to - [**Eevee**](https://eev.ee), whose blog theme I based mine on and whose blog helped inspire me to start writing - [**FlaringK**](https://flaringk.github.io/Portfolio/), from whose [Flare's CSS textboxes](https://mspfa.com/?s=41577) resource I adapted some css chat widgets - [**Zara Nerd**](https://ko-fi.com/zaranerd/), for [art](/blog/2025/08/08/the-homestuck-union-was-always-fake/) - Fir, who was the first person to pitch the GioCities pun during brainstorming, I think - My generous sponsors on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/giovan) and [Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/giovanh39142). I don't have many, but it means a lot! Thanks to you guys I almost break even on this whole deal. - Review and editing: - Jeremy M - [Jake Eakle](https://bsky.app/profile/jseakle.bsky.social) - Everyone who read something I wrote and sent it to someone they thought should read it - **Every single one of you who sometimes says nice things about me online ❤** ## Thanks and credit to - [**Pelican**](https://getpelican.com), the static site generator that powers this blog - [**python-markdown**](https://python-markdown.github.io), which powers most of the document rendering on this site and which has an excellent extension system that's allowed me to do all sorts of crazy fun things - facelessuser's [**PyMdown Extensions**](https://facelessuser.github.io/pymdown-extensions/about/contributing/#become-a-sponsor) - [**Sass**](https://github.com/sass/dart-sass), which makes css tolerable to write (even css that works on most devices!) - vokimon's [**customblocks**](https://github.com/vokimon/markdown-customblocks/), which replaced literally dozens of external dependencies once I discovered it - [**Lazyframe**](https://github.com/vb/lazyframe), whose cover page CSS I stole - [**Mermaid**](https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/) inline diagramming - uetchy's [**Latex API**](https://github.com/uetchy/math-api) at - [**Just**](https://github.com/casey/just) command runner - [**Remark42**](https://github.com/umputun/remark42), the comment engine - [**BackstopJS**](https://garris.github.io/BackstopJS/), a css regression testing framework - Textures and assets - Pinstriped Suit by [Alex Berkowitz](https://www.alexberkowitz.com) via [Transparent Textures](https://www.transparenttextures.com) - Connectwork by Studio Afraz via [Subtle Patterns](https://www.toptal.com/designers/subtlepatterns/connectwork-pattern/) - Lato font by [Łukasz Dziedzic](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato) - [**Excalidraw**](https://excalidraw.com) and the [excalidraw obsidian plugin](https://excalidraw-obsidian.online/)[^obsidian] by Zsolt. [^obsidian]: A halfheartedly wimpered thanks to Obsidian.md itself which I sometimes use for editing, but isn't open-source or even source-available, so despite the quality of the product I have much less to thank them for because of the fragility it introduces. --- Site and content © all rights reserved.