Colophon

This site is documentation for a person. Every page you're reading is a markdown file in a git repository, rendered plainly — no hero section, no scroll animation, nothing between you and the text.

How it's built#

Next.js App Router, statically generated at build time. Tailwind CSS for layout, react-markdown and remark-gfm for the prose. Notes live in content/notes/ as markdown with frontmatter; the sidebar, the table of contents, the search index, and the sitemap are all derived from those files, so adding a page means adding a file.

Deployed on Vercel. No analytics, no trackers, no cookies.

Keyboard#

• ⌘K / Ctrl K — search every page
• ↑ ↓ — move through results
• Enter — open the selected result
• Esc — close search

Design#

The layout borrows its shape from technical documentation — a persistent left nav, a narrow reading column, and an "on this page" rail — because that's the format that respects a reader's time. Prior art: Material for MkDocs and jxnl.co.

Theme follows your system by default; the toggle in the header overrides it and remembers your choice.

The alpaca#

The mark is mine — traced from the original drawing into a single vector path, with the glasses knocked out so it still reads at 16 pixels in a browser tab.

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An earlier version of this site was a working macOS desktop that ran in the browser: draggable windows, a dock, a Finder, a Photos app. It was fun to build and a lot to ask of someone who just wanted to know whether I could do the job. This replaced it.