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// building software in public. logs, bugs, small victories. est. 2026


colophon

How this site is made, and the site measuring itself. Every number below is computed at build time by the site's own build script. No analytics were involved.

the numbers

pages21 HTML pages
total weight164.9 KB raw · 56.2 KB gzipped (entire site)
avg page2.7 KB gzipped
heaviest page/log/tinksoft-launch/ at 3.5 KB gzipped
javascript0 bytes shipped, ever
requests1 per page (CSS and favicon inlined), plus 1 for the hit counter
log entries3 posts, 624 words since 2026-06-09
projects11 on the workbench
built2026-06-10 17:45 UTC in 1.4s

the counter

The visitor counter in the footer is real, and it works the way counters worked in 1996: a small CGI script on the server increments one integer in a flat file and draws the digits as an image. It stores nothing about you. The entire database is a seven-digit number, and it starts at 1337 because some traditions matter.

the seal

Every deploy ships a manifest of SHA-256 checksums for the whole site at /checksums.txt, signed with Sigil, my own signing tool. The signature lives at /checksums.txt.sig. If you want to check that the page you're reading is the page I shipped, you can.

the stack

Posts are markdown files. Astro turns them into plain HTML at build time and is never shipped to your browser. All CSS is hand-written and lives in one layout file. Fonts are whatever monospace your machine already has. Hosted on classic cPanel shared hosting, deployed the honest way: FTP.

Security headers include Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none' — this site is not allowed to load scripts, fonts, frames, or anything else, even if it wanted to.

the philosophy

Do a lot with a little. The demoscene fit whole worlds into 64 KB. A page that fits in a single TCP round trip is this site's modest tribute to that tradition.

The numbers above update on every deploy. If they ever get worse, that goes in the build log too.