colophon
How this site is made.
type
Everything is set in JetBrains Mono (variable, self-hosted, OFL-licensed) — UI, prose, and the art alike. One face, used with conviction.
stack
Built with Astro as a fully static site: plain HTML and CSS, view transitions for navigation, and near-zero JavaScript on content pages. Content is Markdown in typed collections.
the knot
The homepage art is a trefoil torus knot rendered as plain text: one
continuous tube sampled along rotation-minimizing frames, z-buffered
per character cell, shaded against a fixed light, split across four
color layers by luminance. No canvas, no WebGL — just text repainted at
up to 60fps, dropping to 30fps at rest and pausing entirely when
offscreen. Grab it and throw it; it keeps your spin. Or press
~ and try knot spin.
The previous art, an ASCII nebula of domain-warped value noise, retired
to /nebula — fullscreen, still live-tunable from
the terminal (nebula supernova).
numbers
- This page: 62 KB over the wire, gzipped — webfont included.
- Built in 4.7s across 28 pages, including every share image.
- Lighthouse (June 2026): 99–100 performance, 100 accessibility, 100 best practices, 100 SEO. Run it yourself — that's the point.
principles
Almost nothing here watches you. No cookies, no third-party scripts, no ad tech. The one thing I count is page views, and I count them gently: first-party, cookieless, no IP stored, no profile of you, and it stands down completely if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. I can see that a page got traffic and roughly which country and referrer it came from. I can't see you. The rest is static HTML and a single self-hosted font, which is why it loads the way it does.