techiesproject.com

An archive of The Techies Project, a collection of 100 interviews with people working in tech. The project and interviews are from January 2016. Originally a WordPress site, now a static site hosted on Netlify.

How it works

A Node.js build script generates the full site from JSON data and HTML templates. No dependencies required.

• src/data/people.json — 100 interview records (name, bio, content, images, etc.)
• src/data/categories.json — 28 category groupings
• src/templates/ — HTML templates for person pages, homepage, category pages, about, and submit
• scripts/build.js — generates all pages into _output/

Local development

node scripts/build.js

This creates the _output/ directory with the full static site. Open _output/index.html in a browser or serve it locally:

npx serve _output

Deployment

Netlify runs node scripts/build.js on push and publishes the _output/ directory. Config is in netlify.toml.

Project structure

assets/
  css/          # stylesheets
  js/           # scripts (jQuery plugins, category filter, slider)
  fonts/        # web fonts
  images/       # logos and sponsor images
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  portraits/    # full-size interview portraits
  thumbnails/   # gallery thumbnail images
src/
  data/         # people.json, categories.json
  templates/    # HTML templates and partials
scripts/
  build.js      # generates _output/ from templates + data
  extract.js    # one-time script that extracted data from the original WordPress HTML
  verify.js     # post-build verification (checks links, assets, URL coverage)

Other scripts

• node scripts/verify.js — checks the build output for broken local links, missing assets, and WordPress remnants
• node scripts/extract.js — the one-time extraction script used to parse the original wget archive into JSON (kept for reference)