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How this site is built.
This site is a static Astro build. The posts are plain Markdown files that I write in Obsidian; the site compiles them to HTML and deploys to Vercel. Every page is plain HTML; a small script (about 6 KB) swaps pages in place so navigating doesn’t reload, and a few lines follow your system’s light or dark setting. There are no analytics and no tracking — what you see is what was written.
New posts start from a template:
npm run new -- "Post title"The pieces:
| Layer | Choice |
|---|---|
| Framework | Astro, static output |
| Writing | Markdown in an Obsidian vault |
| Hosting | Vercel |
| Type | Geist, JetBrains Mono |
The site is set in two self-hosted variable fonts: Geist for text and JetBrains Mono for metadata. The only colour is gold: in the mark, the marker for the page you’re on, and behind a link when you hover it.
Each published post gets a catalogue number in the order it was written — this one is the first.1
Footnotes
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Codes are assigned by date, oldest first, when the site is built. ↩