Vision

The goal of Achernar is to promote modern and robustly written open-source projects and alike.

In other words, our vision is to develop a human and clean industry and community for technology.

Inception

Achernar was founded in the summer of 2024 by I, Gabriel Bjørnager Jensen.

Our domain – achernar.dk – was already registered in the winter of 2021, at that time being used for hosting on-line source code repositories. This was, however, quickly outsourced to mandelbrot.dk after I had managed to secure that domain.

achernar.dk was then, in the mean time, used for hosting a few look-up references. This mostly served as my own notes for school – mainly mathematics, physics, and chemistry – but quickly grew unorganised and umaintained, although I did have plans to expand the lexicon.

The idea of a company had started in the spring of 2020. At that time it would've been named after the binary system Sheliak (Bayer: β Lyræ). But it was this idea that evolved into Achernar.

Credits

Thanks to the following projects which make our webservice possible:

• FreeBSD

• nginx

• Sass

• TypeScript

Additionally thanks to the following creators for the fonts which we use on our website:

• Carrois Apostrophe: Fira Mono

• Roman Shamin & the “people” at Evil Martians 👽: Martian Mono

• Sorkin Type: Merriweather

• Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, and Jacques Le Bailly: Montserrat

• Claus Eggers Sørensen: Playfair Display

• Matt McInerney, Pablo Impallari, and Rodrigo Fuenzalida: Raleway