Why paper
Text on a screen keeps moving. Notifications, pop-ups, progress bars — something interrupts every few seconds. When you are reading something long, that is more tiring than bad layout.
Paper is still. The words are just words, and nothing sits on top of them. So this site leans that way: a warm off-white page, one serif for both headings and body, a single hairline where a division is needed. No boxes, no shadows, no animation.
What goes here
Roughly three kinds of things:
- Technical notes, mostly records of mistakes I made
- Books and excerpts, usually only a few paragraphs
- Half-formed ideas, written down before they are ready
No news, no schedule. When there is nothing to say, it stays quiet.
Writing is the process of forcing a vague feeling into sentences. Until the sentence exists, you do not actually know what you think.
About this site
Technically it is simple: Astro generates static pages, Cloudflare serves them, and there is no database, no comment system, no analytics. Two font weights, one hue.
That restraint is not aesthetic fussiness. Fewer choices means fewer ways to get distracted while writing.
| Part | Approach |
|---|---|
| Pages | Static HTML, no JS on first paint |
| Type | System serifs, no Latin font downloads |
| Search | Index built at build time |
| Colour | One accent, everything else warm grey |
That is enough for now. I will adjust things once there is more to read.