About this site

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This site is created by Thomas Gordon, a kiwi studying computer engineering at Brown University. Online, some people call me metaterminal.

During my studies, I’ve designed a CPU, built an instrument tuner with an Arduino controller, and helped install an interactive LED screen on Brown’s Center for Information Technology building.

Currently, I work part-time at Brown’s Center for Computation and Visualization as a Research Assistant. My studies help make CCV’s computing cluster more cost-effective and climate efficient.

In my spare time, I create puzzlehunts, write fiction, host a podcast, help run an annual awards show, and create cool things. (Some of the cool things are on this website!)

Current projects

Technical details

This site is run using the static site generator Zola, with individual pages written using Markdown, and deployed using Netlify. I don’t use a Zola theme or anything like that; any functionality on here, I have implemented myself.

(Should I have used React or some other kind of framework? Perhaps! But I enjoyed creating everything from scratch; implementing new features is fun! I also enjoy how lightweight the end result is.)

This site is entirely static. That means no ads and fast load times. I plan to keep my site like this for as long as I have it up.

I also host the website for the Bravo Puzzle Awards, which uses an identical tech stack.

Contact me

I’m not looking to be contacted, but if there is something you want to reach out to me about, then you can find me at altmetaterminal at gmail dot com.