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Every word on this site is written on a single x86-64 workstation running Arch Linux, a rolling release that is never finished and never breaks the same way twice. The desktop is Omarchy, tiled by Hyprland, so no window ever overlaps another.

Architecture

x86-64

Operating system

Arch Linux, rolling, perpetually up to date

Environment

Omarchy atop the Hyprland compositor

Terminal palette

Lumon, loaded at boot

Uptime policy

Restart only when the kernel insists

Posts are written as plain Markdown, the most durable file format known to computing. Each one starts life with draft: true and is previewed on a local loopback at port 1313 before it is published. Version control is git, so every revision is retained in perpetuity, including the regrettable ones.

Source format

Markdown with YAML front matter

Drafting

hugo new posts/…, then hugo server -D

Version control

git, single branch, linear history

Three typefaces are in service, all self-hosted, so no font foundry is told when you visit. Each has one job.

Archivo 0123456789

Display face

Archivo by Omnibus-Type, drawn at its widest setting. It sets titles in spaced capitals, headings, the menu, every label and the dates.

Instrument Sans · Body text

Text face

Instrument Sans by Rodrigo Fuenzalida for Instrument, a crisp neo-grotesque. It sets everything meant to be read at length, at 18 pixels.

IBM Plex Mono {}[] 0O 1lI

Data face

IBM Plex Mono by Mike Abbink and Bold Monday for IBM. It sets code, captions and terminal output.

Licensing

All three under the SIL Open Font License 1.1

The palette is the Lumon theme for Omarchy: deep navy with cool blue accents. The site is dark only; there is no light mode. Every text color has been measured against its background and clears WCAG AA contrast.

• Background#1b2d40
• Code background#142230
• Text#d6e2ee
• Link#6fb8e3
• Link hover#b4e4f6
• Muted#6fa4c9
• Rule#4a6b80

The wordmark in the corner is set in the display face, then converted to outlines so it never waits on a font. It passes through a globe of eight horizontal lines, each exactly two pixels tall and colored by the same five bands as the bar above it, darkest at the bottom.

There is no server, no database and no runtime. On every push to the main branch, a GitHub Actions runner compiles the archive with Hugo into flat HTML, and GitHub Pages broadcasts the result. No JavaScript is shipped to your terminal.

1. Markdown
2. Hugo 0.167
3. GitHub Actions
4. GitHub Pages
5. Your terminal

Generator

Hugo, no theme, no Node, no build chain beyond itself

Host

GitHub Pages, behind a custom domain

Clock

America/Chicago, which decides what day every post was written

Payload

About 170 KB for the front page before images, nearly all of it the three font files

None. There are no analytics, no cookies, no tracking pixels, no comment forms and no newsletter pop-ups. What you read here is your own business. The sole exception: embedded videos are fetched from their own platforms, which keep their own counsel.

Reading text is set at 18 pixels. Contrast is measured, not estimated. Images carry alternative text, headings follow a sensible order, and any animation on this page halts for visitors who have asked their system for reduced motion. The site reads correctly from 360 pixels wide upward.

The RSS feed carries the latest 30 posts. Subscribe in any feed reader. There is no account to create and no algorithm deciding what you see.

• Hugo, for compiling the archive
• Omarchy, for a calm place to work
• The Lumon theme by OldJobobo, for every color
• Archivo, Instrument Sans and IBM Plex, for the letters

Words and pictures © Ryan Karpowicz. Fonts are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the license texts ship alongside them in /fonts/.