Colophon

This site practices truth to mediums: what lives on a screen should be inherently of the screen. Nothing here imitates paper or any other material; the pixel grid is not hidden, it is the subject.

Made with

• Eleventy compiles templates and Markdown into plain HTML on Shane's own machine; the deployed site is inert files that any web server can serve.
• Departure Mono (display, labels, code) and Space Grotesk (body prose), both OFL-licensed and self-hosted — no font is fetched from anyone else's server.
• The homepage map is grown, not drawn: a seeded cellular automaton shapes the field, rule 90 cascades Sierpinski triangles through the Projects territory, and rule 150 weaves its lace through Writings. The same structure grows on every visit.
• Vanilla CSS and JavaScript throughout. No frameworks, no build pipeline beyond the static compile, no third-party requests at runtime.

Principles

• No analytics, no trackers, no cookies.
• Everything needed to rebuild the site lives in one Git repository.
• The site is deployed identically to independent hosts, so no single company can take it down.
• Readable without JavaScript; JavaScript only adds the living parts.

Typeset in the colors of cosmic latte, eigengrau, two cyans, and two ambers — see the styleguide for the system.