About

Radio Free Europe is a personal project for trying new ideas, keeping project notes, and sharing short experiments about building on the web.

The site is intentionally lightweight. It runs on Jekyll with a minimal layout structure and uses Pico CSS for clean, readable styling without a heavy framework. Content lives in plain markdown, so writing and publishing stays fast and simple.

I also used GitHub Copilot during setup to speed up scaffolding and styling while keeping the final copy and structure firmly in my hands.

Why Radio Free Europe?

The name is a nod to R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe,” the band’s early breakout single. It is a jangly track that helped define the sound of college rock and set the tone for the band’s early period.

It also references the actual Radio Free Europe, the US-funded broadcaster that began during the Cold War to provide news and cultural programming to audiences in Eastern Europe. The station later became part of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and continues broadcasting today.

Neither has anything to do with web development.