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Technical details about how this site is built and hosted.

Stack

• Framework: TanStack Start with Vite and React 19
• Styling: Plain CSS with CSS custom properties for theming
• Content: Markdown/MDX files processed with unified/remark/rehype
• Syntax Highlighting: Shiki with CSS variables theme
• 3D Background: React Three Fiber with custom wireframe geometry
• Search: Fuse.js for client-side fuzzy search
• Comments: Giscus (GitHub Discussions)

Hosting

• Platform: Railway
• Cache: Redis for view counts and analytics
• Domain: Managed through Cloudflare

Design

• Typography: Kode Mono - a monospace font throughout
• Themes: 9 color themes including Gruvbox, Dracula, Nord, Catppuccin, and more
• Dark/Light Mode: Respects system preference with manual override

Features

• Terminal emulator with custom commands (Ctrl+K then >)
• Vim-style navigation (j/k to scroll, gg/G for top/bottom)
• Keyboard shortcuts throughout
• Theme-specific cursor particle effects
• Reading progress indicator
• View counts and analytics

Source

The source code for this site is available on GitHub.

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