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this site is a resto-mod. the look is Windows XP "Luna" (blue title bars, raised 3D bevels, Tahoma and Trebuchet and Courier), but the guts are 2026: it's served from the edge, the colors are authored in OKLCH and read period-correct, and there isn't a single font file shipped over the wire (everything's a system font you already have).

a few of the moving parts:

· the homepage is one HTML file, written by hand with no framework. a build step minifies what ships, but it leaves a readable copy beside each page it touches, and the first line of View Source tells you where to find it. you're meant to be able to read the whole thing.

· photos are shot on a Fujifilm X-T50 and a Leica, then run through a little pipeline: resized, EXIF-rotated, and encoded twice. 10-bit AVIF comes first, with a JPEG as the fallback. the JPEG comes from zenc, a small Rust wrapper around zenjpeg that lands about 4% under Google's jpegli at the same quality. see /garage/encoding for the byte counts.

· the visitor counter is a Durable Object now, not a spreadsheet cell. the "now playing" list is scraped from a Spotify playlist by a little crawler that signs its own requests.

· this page is a Notepad window. you can edit it. it won't save. see the note in flux for why.

the whole thing is a slow project: a place to learn how the modern web actually works by dressing it up like the web i grew up on.

built in public. always under construction, on purpose.

-- aadharsh

Ln 1, Col 1last changed 2026-06-06