Leonardo Andreta de Castro

Physicist and software developer

E-mail: leoadec@leoadec.com

I currently work in the quantum industry, developing software that helps quantum computers to reach their potential sooner.

To learn more about my work, see my CV.

Posts

Sparing your visitors from JavaScript

Building a static website in GitHub Pages with Eleventy — 17 February 2025

When creating my personal websites, I try to keep them as lightweight as possible on the user side, to give visitors a fast-loading experience without any hidden bloat running in their browsers. Although this usually means making static websites without any scripts, I can't deny that much of the power of the web resides on the many open-source JavaScript packages that exist today. So, what if I ran them all on the server side before deploying my pages, serving to the user just script-free static output?