Colophon

Typographical

Three typefaces from Klim Type Foundry in Wellington, New Zealand.

Söhne is the sans-serif for headings, navigation, and interface elements. Book and semibold weights, with italics for both.

Tiempos Text is the serif for body copy and long-form prose. Book weight with italics.

Söhne Mono is the monospace for code blocks, dates, and metadata. Book and semibold weights.

Technical

The site is a Next.js application with MDX content, statically generated at build time and hosted on Vercel. Search uses Chroma with SPLADE embeddings.

A Mac Mini at my home in San Francisco handles email delivery, analytics, and a handful of other services through Docker containers behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. I wrote about the motivation in A mini data center and published a complete setup guide in How to host web apps on a Mac Mini. The framework powering it, Toolbox, is open source.

Email delivery runs through Printing Press on the Mac Mini. Analytics run through a self-hosted Plausible instance on the same machine. No cookies, no tracking scripts from third parties, no personal data collected.

Style guide

Rules I try to follow when writing:

Active voice
No contractions
No em dashes (use other punctuation instead)
Never use the word "very"
Avoid exclamation points
Oxford commas (always use the serial comma)
Sentence case for titles
Do not use "+" in place of "and"
No redundant questions
Dates in ISO-8601 format
Units in metric, temperatures in Celsius
Assume international readers (country codes on phone numbers, country in addresses)
Never use the structure "it is not (this), it is (that)"
Avoid the royal "we"