Colophon.
What this site is made of — the stack, the tools, and the people whose work shaped the direction.
Stack, tools, sources, type
Stack
Signals + standalone + SSR. The landing pre-renders; the console hydrates.
DDD-per-module — domain / application / infrastructure / presentation. Boring is the goal.
Type-safe Postgres access. Migrations live in repo; schema is the contract.
Single managed Postgres for landing data + auth. Same DB the admin console edits.
Monorepo orchestrator. `nx affected` keeps CI honest as the workspace grows.
Utility-first for layout, SCSS modules for component contracts. No global rules.
Hosting + Postgres + SSR app. One platform; Cloudflare in front for DNS + edge cache.
Image host + transforms. Reached by media picker in the console; URL-only on landing.
Tools
Architecture diagrams + figure annotations. Hand-drawn aesthetic matches the voice.
Engineering journal + draft writing. Drafts move to repo when they earn it.
Primary AI pair. Slash-commands from TDP plugins drive the project workflow.
Low-fidelity layout sketches before code. Final design lives in the DDL route, not Figma.
Captures for case study figures. Beautified with a small ImageMagick script, not a SaaS.
Sources & credits
Quiet confidence on dark; hairline borders; mono-flavored UI labels. The reference for tone.
Editorial serif logo + italic tagline. Where the dark-but-not-black palette idea came from.
Technical density with calm voice ("Ship software peacefully"). Validates restraint over polish.
Mature dark UI + right-rail navigation. Pattern lifted directly for the project case-study layout.
Editorial-magazine-of-products framing. Inspiration for the /projects index density.
Big bold sans hero on dark; product mock embedded. Reference for the home hero composition.
Direction validator — sans display + serif italic emphasis rhythm. The closest published proof the direction ships.
Type
This site
Authored end-to-end by one person — design system, content, backend, frontend, ops. The public landing reads from a small NestJS API backed by Postgres; an admin console in the same monorepo edits every section you see, so a typo fix is a 12-second round-trip and a deploy nobody notices. The visual direction settled across an E4 moodboard pass — dark, restrained accent, editorial-serif italic for the human moments. The writing is the part I edited most: read aloud, cut, read aloud again.
Updates
Ship-and-forget by default. The case studies, /uses, and this page change when the work behind them changes — not on a calendar. If you spot something stale, the email at the bottom is mine, not a contact form.