This site is handmade, with the HTML and CSS written as Go templates that are pieced together during a generation phase of a custom program.
The program is then recompiled in server mode, where the generated static site is embedded in the binary using Go's embed package. It runs an HTTP server configured for TLS with certificates signed by Lets Encrypt.
The server binary is then distributed to VMs running on multiple cloud providers.
No javascript is present, and no data is collected about visitors -- the only metrics kept are a count of each url path requested as prometheus metrics.
I serve images in some of my posts, but I do not want to incur the cost of serving all the images every time the home page is served. I'm not aware of robust ways to prevent browsers from loading images initially without Javascript. Lazy-loading directives on image tags vary in their support, and I don't like that more requests may be required to view the entire post after the page is reported as loaded. Therefore I utilize a simple solution - when rendering the HTML for the homepage (index.html), I replace image tags with a link to the individual post. Individual post pages do embed the images, as I assume the full content is being specifically requested.