colophon

a colophon is a note at the back of an old book that tells you how the book was made. websites used to have them. we still do.

this site

• frontend: Astro, hand-rolled CSS, no Tailwind, no client-side JS unless absolutely necessary.
• typeface: Georgia (serif headings) and Trebuchet MS (sans body), both safely on every machine since the late 90s.
• palette: warm parchment, walnut, mossy green, amber, with a pinch of rosehip red.
• mascots: drawn as pixel-style SVGs by Claude. proper portraits to follow.

infrastructure

• host: an LXC container on a Proxmox host (i.e. somebody's basement).
• edge: Cloudflare tunnel. no inbound ports, no public IP, just a tunnel from the box up to Cloudflare's edge.
• web server: nginx serves the static site at /, reverse-proxies to PHP-FPM at /forum.
• forum: phpBB 3.3, with a custom theme that matches the site palette.
• database: MariaDB.

credits

• structural inspiration for the forum: DCEmulation, still posting after all these years.
• spiritual inspiration: every Geocities site that ever was.
• the cast of mascots: Rocky, Mabel, Pip, Juniper, Bram.

source

the source for this site lives in a private git repo. if you'd like to poke at it, ask in the forum. we'll likely open-source the theme and layout once they've stabilized.