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This site is a SolidStart application written in plain JavaScript and run with Bun. Every page is prerendered to static HTML at build time; the server's only job is to hand those files over. Essays are markdown files rendered with marked, with code highlighted by shiki at build time in both color themes.

There is one hand-written stylesheet. Text is set in your system's serif face at a measure of 66 characters. The theme follows your system preference; the SHIFT button in the status window at the foot of each page stores your choice in localStorage and nowhere else.

The site is self-hosted on a Hetzner server in Germany behind nginx with HTTP/3, TLS from Let's Encrypt. It makes no requests to anyone else's servers: no fonts, no analytics, no cookies, no CDN.

The status window in the footer and the 404 screen are set in Web437 IBM VGA 8x16 from VileR's Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (CC BY-SA 4.0), in stock VGA text-mode colors. The favicon is original pixel art, and more is on the drawing board: eventually every systems person rebuilds the port they used to work in, sixteen pixels at a time.