Way of the Peaceful Coder — kiranbir.github.io

Personal website for Kiranbir Sodhia. Plain HTML/CSS — no build step, no dependencies.

• index.html — home/bio
• publications.html — technical papers + leadership interviews
• blog/index.html — blog index; one HTML file per post (16 posts, migrated from Wix)
• css/style.css — the entire theme (cream/navy/gold palette, Fraunces + Inter)
• css/fonts.css — self-hosted WOFF2 fonts (latin subset, no Google Fonts dependency)
• fonts/ — Fraunces + Inter WOFF2 files
• images/blog/ — blog post images (WebP)
• .nojekyll — tells GitHub Pages to serve files as-is

To edit a page, just edit its HTML. To add a blog post, copy any post file in blog/, change the title/date/content, and add an entry to the list in blog/index.html.

Repo: kiranbir/kiranbir.github.io. From this folder (the first command removes a partially-initialized .git with stale lock files — recreate it fresh):

rm -rf .git
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Way of the Peaceful Coder — initial site"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/kiranbir/kiranbir.github.io.git
git push -u origin main

If the repo already has a placeholder commit (e.g. an auto-generated README), the push will be rejected — use git push -u origin main --force to replace it.

Pages serves <username>.github.io repos from main automatically; the site goes live at https://kiranbir.github.io within a minute or two. If it doesn't, check Settings → Pages → Source: Deploy from a branch → main / (root).

1. At your DNS provider, add a CNAME record: www → <username>.github.io. For the apex domain (kiranbirsodhia.com), add A records to GitHub Pages' IPs: 185.199.108.153, 185.199.109.153, 185.199.110.153, 185.199.111.153.
2. On GitHub: Settings → Pages → Custom domain → enter your domain → Save (this commits a CNAME file to the repo). Check Enforce HTTPS once the certificate is issued.

Blog post images live in images/blog/ as WebP. To add an image to a post, place the file there and reference it with explicit width and height plus loading="lazy".