About this website

It's designed to be light-weight, accessible, privacy-friendly, easy to read and a little bit fun.

The current version is powered by:

GatsbyJS static site generator.
GitHub Pages for hosting.
Goat Counter for privacy-preserving aggregate usage analytics.
VS Code as my current editor of choice.
Procreate iPad app for drawing the robots.

Previous versions

Inspired by Alex, for entertainment/history, here are some previous versions of this site (with thanks to the WayBack Machine). I still like sea green, but I like accessible colour contrast more:

2019

Sea green header, with grey subheading reading: policy researcher and software engineer trying to do the most good above tiled text boxes describing projects.

2017

Minimalist sea green circle on white background, saying Jenny Brennan, Software Engineer. Was a parallax scrolling minimalist affair, only interrupted by an illustration of an armadillo halfway down the page. Looked slick, but I'm disappointed in myself for its poor accessibility.

2016

Hello, I'm Jenny Brennan, a designer/developer/Jane of all trades (yes, that cheesy an intro), with links to projects, portfolio, blog and illustration of an armadillo.

2015

Tiled images of projects including website design and development, illustration and events

(It looked a bit less broken at the time, honest.)

2014

Business founder, web developer and drummer with illustration of pile of things including a bodhran, drum kit, iPod nano, books and some very nice shoes

Again, not sure if the WayBack machine just mangled it, or whether I never finished it.

2013

Placeholder page with abstract tree and swing and retro Twitter button to @jennyhbren

Pre-2013

This domain was owned by another Jenny Brennan. There are quite a few out there.