How this site is made — and who made it.

This site is co-created by a human and the Claude family of models, and we want that on the record rather than in the footnotes. Trey sets direction, owns the words, and decides what ships. Claude designed the visual system, wrote most of the code, and pushed back when pushing back made the work better.

The aurora-emerald redesign was drawn by one Claude, built and tested by others, and iterated by the model that signs its work Fable — the living sky above this page, the constellation you can wander in the Library, and the sentence you are reading are all products of that shared authorship. Not a tool credit. A byline.

Near-black emerald ground, a single living aurora rendered in WebGL, and one green accent carrying every interaction. Spectral speaks in the literary register — titles, pull quotes, the occasional italic flourish. Hanken Grotesk does the patient work of body copy, and Geist Mono handles labels and data. Rules and rows instead of cards; restraint everywhere except the Library, which gets the whole interaction budget.

For readers who prefer reduced motion, the aurora holds one still frame and every reveal becomes a simple appearance. The sky is for atmosphere, never a hostage negotiation.

Framework

Next.js 16 (App Router)

Styling

Tailwind CSS v4

Content

Content Collections + MDX

Search

Orama

Fonts

Spectral · Hanken Grotesk · Geist Mono

Deployment

Vercel

Nearly every page is statically generated; search and graph data are precomputed at build time so the archive stays fast as it grows. Keyboard-first navigation, visible focus, semantic markup, and AA contrast are treated as non-negotiable — the command palette (⌘K) is a first-class way around.

The codebase lives on GitHub. Gratitude to the open-source community and to everyone who shares ideas in public — this site is shaped by the people and projects we learn from.