Colophon

This site is a personal experiment in building with the grain of the web. No build-time UI framework, no client-side router, no virtual DOM.

Architecture

• Hosting: Cloudflare Workers with static assets served from the edge.
• Database: Cloudflare D1 (SQLite at the edge).
• Templates: Plain JavaScript tagged template literals — the same functions render both the static build and live API responses.
• CSS: Native nesting and @layer for cascade control. No preprocessor.
• JavaScript: Progressive enhancement only. Every page and form works with JS disabled.

Principles

• Progressive enhancement — the no-JS baseline is the product.
• HATEOAS — hypermedia as the engine of application state.
• Web standards first — platform APIs before libraries.
• One template source — no duplicated markup between build and runtime.

Source code on GitHub