Colophon

This site represents an exploration of modern web development techniques with an emphasis on performance, maintainability, and design consistency.

Technical Foundation: Built with Astro as the core framework - chosen for its island architecture that enables rich interactivity with minimal JavaScript. The styling system uses custom CSS with a unified design token approach, implementing liquid glass effects, dynamic accent colors, and a comprehensive button system that ensures visual consistency across all interactive elements.

Content Architecture: Content is authored in Markdown with YAML frontmatter, enabling clean separation of content and presentation concerns. The site features a sophisticated filtering and sorting system that allows content to be organized by type (read, play, about) with persistent URL state management.

Interactive Components: The site showcases a diverse collection of interactive experiences and games built with various technologies:

  • Canvas-based games using p5.js (Chaoscape, Electro-Ball, Particle Party)
  • Vanilla JavaScript games (Bad Ghost, Space Invaders, Click Jazz)
  • Mathematical visualizations (Fractal, Quasicrystal Chirp, Chaos Pendulum)
  • Creative tools (Bitface, Flow Face, Thinking Triangles)

Design System: Typography emphasizes readability with variable font support including Roboto and Merriweather. The visual design features a unified button system with dynamic accent colors, responsive liquid glass effects, and consistent spacing based on design tokens. All interactive elements maintain accessibility standards with proper ARIA attributes and keyboard navigation support.

Search & Discovery: Integrated Pagefind search provides fast, client-side full-text search across all content with a responsive dropdown interface that respects the site’s design language.

Philosophical Inspiration: This project is heavily inspired by the principles of digital gardening, as popularized by Maggie Appleton. The site is designed as a “living” knowledge base, blending personal exploration with public-facing content. It also draws influence from Gwern, particularly his approach to long-form, interconnected writing and knowledge management.

Additional inspiration comes from:

Deployment: Deployed through a continuous integration pipeline via GitHub Actions to Vercel’s edge network for optimal global performance.

Attribution: For a complete list of third-party resources and their licenses, see the Attributions page.