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About this site

This is my personal corner of the internet. It’s a showcase of my interests, hobbies, and my history.

Technology

I have no formal training in web dev, and I believe in using simple tools. This site is built on WordPress, the same software I started learning in 2014. It uses the Twenty Twenty Four theme (stripped down) and is hosted on Hostinger.

This website uses HTML, CSS and a few bits of JS and PHP for customisation.

My blog posts have an RSS feed that you can subscribe to using any feed reader (made possible with SubToMe). All posts support Webmentions. The site also supports a number of h-card microformat properties (see here).

A number of the apps on my /now page were “vibe-coded” using Lovable.

While this site is fully responsive, it is best viewed on desktop.

Design

This is the fourth or fifth iteration of my website. My goal with this version was to keep it text-based and clean. There are minimal analytics, no newsletter pop-ups, no ads, and I’m not trying to sell you anything.

This iteration of the website was made while listening to Blood on the Tracks (Dylan), Super Session (Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills), and Live at Sin-é (Buckley) on repeat.

Typography

The typography is chosen for clarity and minimalism. I use Rig Sans and Maiola throughout this website. (Sourced from Adobe Fonts, using Fonts Plugin.) I also use Cascadia Mono (Google Fonts) for code blocks and inline code, with graceful fallbacks to OS-native code fonts.

:not(pre) > code {
    font-family: "Cascadia Mono", "Segoe UI Mono", "Roboto Mono", "Oxygen Mono", "Ubuntu Monospace", "Source Code Pro", "Fira Mono", "Droid Sans Mono", "Courier New", ui-monospace, Menlo, Monaco, monospace;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    background-color: rgba(164, 164, 164, 0.35); /* Uses my contrast-3 color at 35% opacity */
    padding: 0.15em 0.3em;
    border-radius: 0.2rem;
}

Colour Palette

The site’s default palette, outlined below, is built on a light base. For comfortable late-night scrolling, I’ve implemented a dark mode using the WP Dark Mode plugin, which dynamically repaints the entire site’s colour scheme when toggled.

Editorial

• Language: British English (colour, programme, metre).
• Oxford Comma: Strictly enforced.
• Dates: DD MMM YYYY (e.g., 12 Feb 2026).
• AI: All writing on this site is 100% human. AI is used for code assistance only, never for prose. Note: I have been using em dashes in my writing long before AI tools were widely available—all em dashes on this website are enthusiastically human-crafted.
• Notebook Entries: Thamara’s Notebook © 2026 by Thamara Kandabada is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Carbon Footprint

This website produces 0.10g of CO2 per visit.

Accessibility

WORK IN PROGRESS: I’m using high contrast type and semantic HTML headings to make the site as accessible as possible, however, I am still working on updating descriptive alt text for older content.

Privacy

Data Collection: This website does not use cookies. If you use the contact form on my /hello page to send me a message, the information you provide (Name and Email) is used solely to respond to you. I do not share or sell this data to third parties.

Analytics: I use Google Tag Manager for basic site traffic statistics. This data is anonymised and helps me understand which parts of the blog (/notebook) are being read.

External Links: This site links to third-party platforms (Letterboxd, Trakt, etc.). Once you leave this site, their respective privacy policies apply.

The Quote

The phrase in the footer, “Ars longa, vita brevis” (Art is long, life is short), is one of my favourites that serves as a reminder that while our time here is fleeting, the work we create will outlast us. It also means that any craft worth learning requires a lifetime of dedication.