Signal
Colophon
Short version: by hand, on purpose. No framework, no page builder, no component library, no CDN, no trackers, no analytics, no ads, no cookies. The whole site is static files generated by one Python script that only uses the standard library, served off a small computer in a spare room. This page is the receipt.
The build
Every page here is written as plain HTML fragments and assembled by a single hand written generator. There is no npm, no bundler, no CSS framework and no JavaScript framework. v007 is a new stylesheet and new templates written from scratch, not a skin bolted onto the last version. If that sounds austere, that is the point. You could read the whole thing.
The mask
The shape behind the words is a real 3D object, not a picture. It is built in code as an extruded face plate, lit with a warm key light and a cold rim light, with an emissive mouth whose bars ride the same live waveform the rest of the site uses for its signature. It runs on WebGL through Three.js, vendored into the repo and served from this box, so nothing loads from anyone else's server. Turn WebGL off, or ask your system for reduced motion, and the page serves a complete static version instead. Nobody gets a blank screen.
The stack
- Markup and layout: hand written HTML and CSS, one Python generator, standard library only.
- Type: Space Grotesk for display, Inter for reading, Departure Mono and IBM Plex Mono for the interface labels. All self hosted, zero font calls off box.
- Scripting: vanilla JavaScript for the overlay menu, the command palette and the WebGL stage. No jQuery, no build step.
- 3D: Three.js r169, MIT license, vendored in the repo and served from this box. No CDN.
- Search: the command palette (press the slash key, or Command or Control plus K) reads a small JSON index baked into the page at build time. No server, no request.
- Hosting: a Raspberry Pi in a spare room, reachable through an outbound tunnel with no ports opened to the internet.
- Tracking: none. No analytics, no tag manager, no cookies, no ads, no third party anything.
Built with Claude Code
The honest part. The site is designed and written with Claude Code doing the typing, against a locked identity and a strict set of rules: no invented numbers, no marketing voice, no imported effects kits, and a hard accessibility and performance floor every pass has to clear. The taste, the constraints and the final call are a human's. The mask, the WebGL, the menu and this colophon were built the same way the field logs describe building everything else, in the open, with the failures left in.
Why bother
Because a site that tells you to own your own stack should be built the way it preaches. Hand made, self hosted, no rent, no surveillance, simple enough that you could rebuild it yourself after reading the logs. That is the whole idea.