How this site is built

Static pages built with Astro, written in Markdown, hosted on GitHub Pages behind Cloudflare DNS. The source is public in the repo.

Type is Source Serif 4 for words, with IBM Plex Mono for data and Courier Prime for the front page's small type, all self-hosted. The palette is cream paper, warm ink, and one accent: Ford Field Green.

No analytics, no cookies, no tracking of any kind, and no code loaded from anyone else. Three things here run JavaScript: the dateline clock, the weather line, which reads our own Worker on wx.kj5irq.radio, and the theme toggle. With scripts off the page still reads, showing the weather as it stood when the site was built.

Statuses and dates on project pages are real and maintained by hand. If something says active, it is running; if it says archived, it retired honestly.

Why the sections are named this

None of these is a synonym. Each is the word its trade uses for the thing the section is: a ledger is a record, an aerial is an antenna, a bookplate says whose book it is, and a colophon says how a book was made.

Ledger

What I run and what state it is in, kept current by hand.

Aerial

The antenna, and the station behind it. The part that actually radiates.

Recorded nets

Under Aerial. Appearances on other people's nets, with the dates and the recordings.

Bookplate

The printed mark inside a cover that says whose book this is. Here, mine.

Marginalia

Notes in the margins. The section appears once there is something in it.

Colophon

This page. Where a book explains how it was made.