maxconwa.github.io

Personal site for Max Conway — https://maxconwa.github.io

Plain HTML and CSS. No build step, no dependencies, no JavaScript. GitHub Pages serves index.html from the root of main.

Editing

Everything lives in index.html; the CSS is in the <style> block at the top.

• Add a project — copy an <article class="project"> block inside <section id="research">. Blocks alternate media left/right automatically, so order is all you control.
• Add a publication — add an <li> to <ul class="pubs">, newest first. Link the title to the paper's landing page, and give arXiv papers a PDF link.
• Colors — the CSS custom properties under :root (and the prefers-color-scheme: dark block below it) define the whole palette.

Assets

assets/cv/max-conway-resume.pdf   redacted copy — no phone number or home address
assets/img/headshot.png
assets/img/favicon-32.png, favicon-180.png   tab icon + iOS home screen
assets/golem/  golem.mp4, poster JPG, og-cover.jpg (social preview)
assets/rapid/  rapid.mp4, + poster JPG

Videos are re-encoded to 720p H.264 with -movflags +faststart and are lazily loaded (preload="none" plus a poster frame), so the page costs ~400 KB until a visitor presses play. To add one:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=-2:720 -c:v libx264 -crf 26 -preset slow \
       -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -b:a 96k -movflags +faststart assets/<proj>/<name>.mp4
ffmpeg -ss 10 -i assets/<proj>/<name>.mp4 -frames:v 1 -q:v 3 assets/<proj>/<name>-poster.jpg

Keep individual files under 100 MB — GitHub rejects anything larger.

Local preview

python3 -m http.server 8000   # then open http://localhost:8000