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Astro on Cloudflare Workers, written in TypeScript, built with Bun and styled with Tailwind. Every entry is one JSON file, checked against a typed definition before anything ships, and every page is rendered from those files on request. The copy lives in typed data files, never in templates, and a test fails the build if an em dash gets in.

Erode, by Nikhil Ranganathan at Indian Type Foundry, for everything but the essays, which are set in Source Serif. I picked it for the name as much as the letterforms: a site put back together from whatever survived of two decades of old sites, set in a typeface called Erode, seemed about right. Both are variable fonts served from here rather than from a font service. The sans and the mono are whatever your system has.

The covers, logos and screenshots come from a second dig, through private archives rather than the public web: a Dropbox account of 745,062 files, opened read-only and never altered, and the original source repositories. The originals sit in a Cloudflare R2 bucket and are resized at build.

Some of the products no longer exist anywhere. Where the code survived but the site did not, the page was rebuilt from its own templates and stylesheets, then photographed. Those images are labelled as reconstructions. One was checked against a genuine 2014 capture of the same page: the same typeface, from the same font file, and a button three pixels out.

Not everything found was used. Customer lists, private addresses, a typeface licensed to a client, work under agreement and other people's photographs were all found and then deliberately left where they were.

Every address my old sites ever served, as far as the Wayback Machine knows, points at the entry that carries its content now. The map isn't kept by hand: each entry lists the pages it came from, and turning that list inside out gives old address to new page. Links from the very first site onwards resolve again instead of failing.