Frederik Schulz — Minimalist Personal Homepage

https://fmschulz.github.io/personal-hp/

A minimalist personal homepage in the Swiss / International Typographic style: pure monochrome, a strict 12-column grid, big grotesque type, and monospace metadata.

Design

• Lab Monochrome — zero color by design; black on white, with a dark mode toggle
• Typography — Space Grotesk (display), Instrument Serif italic (accents), Instrument Sans (body), Space Mono (metadata)
• Selected work — a numbered index (highlights, recent papers, software, group, lab) with venue and year columns; papers link to their DOIs
• Signature motif — faint icosahedral capsids drift behind the masthead; click to add one
• Lab — lab/virophage/ is an interactive WebGPU simulation, linked from the Work index
• Motion — masked headline reveals, hairline draws, GSAP + Lenis smooth scroll
• Accessible — respects prefers-reduced-motion; keyboard-focusable; graceful no-JS fallback

Stack

• Static HTML5 + CSS3 (Grid / custom properties) + vanilla JavaScript
• GSAP + ScrollTrigger, Lenis
• Hosted on GitHub Pages — no build step

Develop

Open index.html directly, or serve the folder:

python3 -m http.server 8000   # then visit http://localhost:8000

Edit content in index.html, styling in css/styles.css, behavior in js/animations.js. The Work index is generated from data/work.json (see Publications).

Publications

The Work index in index.html is generated. scripts/update_publications.py rewrites everything between <!-- work:start --> and <!-- work:end -->. The GitHub Actions workflow .github/workflows/publications.yml runs it every Monday at 06:17 UTC (or on demand from the Actions tab), commits index.html only when the list changed, and requests a Pages build.

Source	Supplies
data/work.json	pinned papers for Highlights (DOI and a one-line description); software, group and lab entries
ORCID 0000-0002-4932-4677	title, venue and year of each paper; the five newest journal articles for "Recent papers"
Crossref	metadata for a pinned DOI that is not on the ORCID record
OpenAlex	author lists; work types that identify errata and preprints; citation counts for ordering Highlights

Highlights lists entries marked "top": true first, in file order, then the other pinned papers by OpenAlex citation count, highest first. If a source fails or a pinned DOI does not resolve, the script exits without writing. Edits made by hand inside the generated block are overwritten on the next run.

Pin a paper

1. Add {"doi": "10.xxxx/...", "desc": "One line on what the paper found."} to selected in data/work.json.

2. Preview the change:

   uv run scripts/update_publications.py --dry-run

3. Write it to index.html:

   uv run scripts/update_publications.py

Software, group and lab entries live in the same file under groups.

Test the updater

uv run --no-project python -m unittest discover -s tests

License

© 2026 Frederik Schulz. All rights reserved.