6 essays published: 3 Ulysses, 3 Ilias. 1,115 words written, essay bodies only; doesn't count the drafts that never made it. 6 minutes, cover to cover, at roughly 220 words a minute. And 58 days since launch, built slowly, on purpose.
Built with
Astro, statically generated: no server to keep alive, no database to worry about.
Type set in Fraunces, EB Garamond and Space Grotesk, self-hosted as variable fonts, so nothing here depends on a third party to render.
Essays edited from a browser via Decap CMS, authenticated through DecapBridge, committed straight to Git, with no database for content either.
Hosted on Vercel, deployed automatically on every push to main.