About Luxagraf

Luxagraf is written and published by Scott Gilbertson.

Scott Gilbertson

If you must have more details about me, or if you’d like to hire me, check out scottgilbertson.net

Acknowledgments

I don’t use a pre-packaged publishing system that you can go download and use yourself. Luxagraf is created primarily by hand, with a lot of tools loosely joined. Most of these tools are free software that you too can use and modify as you see fit. Without these amazing tools I wouldn’t be able to do this — many thanks to the people who created and maintain them.

GeoDjango framework — Behind the scenes this handles a few things, like geographic queries and putting everything on a map. If you have any interest in working with geographic data, this is by far the best tool I’ve used.

Python — GeoDjango of course depends on Python, which in turn runs on my Linux server hosted by Digital Ocean. Nginx serves the flat HTML files you’re looking at here.

OpenStreetMap — I use OpenStreetMap data for all the maps on this site. OpenStreetMap is like the Wikipedia of maps, except that it isn’t wrong half the time. Whenever I feel skeptical about the so-called collective power of people on the internet, I remember OpenStreetMap and feel a little better.

Leaflet.js — This is the JavaScript Library that makes it really easy to load all the pretty maps you see on luxagraf. The map tiles themselves were developed by a company call ESRI and are credited with links on the various maps.

Vim — The text editor I used to type up most things, including these words right now.

The site validates as HTML5 and uses something the kids call responsive web design. I may or may not have written an entire book on responsive web design.

Luxagraf should work in every web browser. If you have trouble, or see something that just doesn’t seem right, please let me know.

Photography

Currently photos are taken with a Panasonic GF1. This is hands down the best digital camera I have ever used and second only to my old Nikon F3. In the past I have used a Panasonic LX2 and a Canon S45.

Minimal photo processing is done with either Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop on OS X or Darktable and GIMP on Linux.

The photo gallery layout was inspired by the lovely (and now defunct) Pictory photo showcase. Also note that while the writing is copyrighted to me, the photos are licensed under a Creative Commons attribution, share-alike license, which means you’re free to use them so long as you attribute them to me.