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Built with Astro, shipping essentially zero client-side JavaScript — the one exception is the light/dark theme toggle. Type is set in a self-hosted Archivo variable font, served from this site rather than a third-party font host. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Design system

The visual language is op-art-inspired and accessibility-first: static line-weight geometry, ruled dividers, and typography carry the expression, rather than imagery, motion, or decoration for its own sake. Every color pairing used for text is contrast-checked, with body text held to AAA (7:1) rather than the AA minimum.

How it was made

This site was designed and built through an agent workforce that I directed — Claude models handling the design system, the page-by-page build, and accessibility verification, with me setting direction, reviewing output, and making the calls a person needs to make. It's also the subject of a forthcoming essay on the writing page.

Audio narration

The case studies carry an AI-narrated reading, labelled plainly as such. The voice is synthesized at build time with Gemini text-to-speech, a paragraph at a time so the phrasing carries across whole sentences rather than resetting at every full stop. Each reading is generated from the page's own text, encoded to a small mp3, and served as a static file through a native audio player, so there is nothing to load unless you press play. The page you are reading is the transcript.

Privacy

No analytics, no cookies, no tracking scripts of any kind. I don't know who visits this site or what they look at.