# Hugo Daniel's Blog

> Personal blog about web development, WebGPU, creative coding, and design tools.

This is the personal website of Hugo Daniel, a Portuguese software developer making tools for creative code.

## Site Structure

- `/` - Homepage with author bio and recent posts
- `/start-here/` - Curated entry points into the archive, grouped by topic (best first stop)
- `/posts/` - Blog articles about web development, WebGPU, shaders, and creative coding
- `/projects/` - Project showcases (e.g., Shader Canvas)
- `/pages/` - Interactive web applications and tools

## Recent Posts

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- [Declarative WebGPU with S-expressions](/posts/declarative-webgpu-with-s-expressions/) - 2026-08-23 - WebGPU wiring you can ship and share
- [wgslender: My WGSL Toolchain](/posts/wgslender-my-wgsl-toolchain/) - 2026-08-09 - Many tools on one WGSL core
- [The end of creativity](/posts/the-end-of-creativity/) - 2026-07-15 - A story on AI median regression
- [Color picking Oklch for mortals](/posts/color-picking-oklch/) - 2026-06-14 - Perceptual color picking using the classic color picker
- [S-expressions the wrong way](/posts/sjon/) - 2026-06-02 - A bunch of stuff that lead me to SJON
- [S-Rausch](/posts/s-rausch/) - 2026-05-25 - Symbolic everything
- [Lost in the middle](/posts/lost-in-the-middle/) - 2026-05-24 - Going a way
- [The LLM experience of boreDOM](/posts/redesigning-boredom-for-lx/) - 2026-02-17 - My LLM first approach of a simple JS framework

Full archive at `/posts/`. Machine-readable list of every post (with content) at `/atom.xml`.

## Main Topics

- WebGPU and WGSL shaders
- S-expressions, schemas, and small declarative languages (SJON)
- WebGPU shader tooling (portability, minification, diagnostics)
- Web Components and JavaScript frameworks
- Creative coding and graphics programming
- Design tools (color pickers, pixel art generators)
- Browser technologies and performance

## Author

Hugo Daniel
- Email: mail@hugodaniel.com
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hugodan.bsky.social
- Gemini capsule: gemini://hugodaniel.com/

## Projects

- **SJON** - Constrained S-expressions where the central tool is the schema, not the macro (`/pages/sjon/`)
- **PNGine** - A minimal engine that bundles WebGPU shaders and pipelines into portable PNG files
- **miniray** - An ultra-fast WGSL shader minifier, validator, and reflector written in Go (`/pages/miniray/`)
- **Shader Canvas** - A graphics framework for creative coding (`/projects/shader-canvas/`)
- **Grid Generator** - A design tool for pixel art and azulejo-inspired patterns (`/pages/gridgenerator/`)
- **Color Picker Pro** - A Figma plugin for color selection (`/pages/color-picker-pro/`)
- **WebGPU Diagnostics** - A WebGPU info and shader compilation benchmark tool (`/pages/webgpu-diagnostics/`)
- **boreDOM** - An earlier experiment in a minimal JavaScript framework, no bundling, no compilation (`/pages/boreDOM/`)

## Technical Details

- Static site built with Zola
- RSS/Atom feed at /atom.xml (detached-signed at /atom.xml.asc)
- Search index available for client-side search
- All content is in English
- Hosted on OpenBSD with httpd + relayd

## Identity & Verification

- PGP fingerprint: E49D 556A D099 3482 CA78 B6E8 C181 88F9 E2A4 C0AD
- Public key: /pgp.asc
- PGP info page: /pgp/
- WKD discovery: `gpg --locate-external-keys mail@hugodaniel.com`
- Security contact: /.well-known/security.txt

## Alternate Access

- Onion mirror (Tor v3): gbbodsjshg2lrktc3vpcobn5i3qcuhtab5nkzjxaiip3yj5s3rlws7ad.onion
- Tor Browser auto-redirects via the Onion-Location response header
- Gemini capsule: gemini://hugodaniel.com/ (latest 5 posts as gemtext)

## License

Content is published under EUPL 1.2 license.