Colophon

A record of how this site is actually built, kept in the same spirit as everything else here: the granular detail is the part worth preserving.

The pages are a Hugo static site. Everything you are reading was written in Markdown and rendered to flat HTML at build time — there is no application server deciding what to show you, only files.

The styling is Bulma, stripped down hard: three colors (Bradbury red, ash cream, ink black), square corners, no shadows, no gradients. The type is Anton for display, Inter for body, and JetBrains Mono for code and labels, all self-hosted from this domain so no request ever leaves it to fetch a typeface.

The palette is fire. The regime used it to burn and the phoenix used it to return; the difference was never the temperature, only who was keeping the record.

The live sensor readouts come from a small FastAPI service backed by SQLite in WAL mode, pushed to the page over server-sent events with Datastar. No single-page-app framework, no client-side build step beyond bundling that one script.

It runs on a single VPS behind the Caddy web server, which also handles TLS. Deploys are a tarball shipped over SSH and swapped in with an atomic symlink — no git pull on the server. The database is replicated continuously with Litestream, and the runtime secrets are encrypted with SOPS so the server never holds a key it does not need.

Everything here is licensed for reuse — the writing, the code, and the data each on their own terms. The particulars are on the copyright page.

Heavy-iron aesthetics; one-tenth of a watt. The gauge is enamel because gauges should be readable in fifty years, not because the machine is large.

Built and maintained by one person, in the margins.