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this site. a soft-on-the-surface static site that's actually a hand-built Astro + Preact islands setup with a self-managing image pipeline.

  • Astro
  • Preact
  • TypeScript
  • sharp
source β†—

You’re looking at it. Cute costume, real engineering underneath.

the bones

  • Astro SSG β€” every page ships as static HTML with proper share previews. No server, no runtime, drops onto any static host.
  • Preact islands β€” interactivity (the lightbox, a secret or two) hydrates only where needed; the rest is zero-JS.
  • self-managing gallery β€” drop an image in a folder, it appears. sharp turns multi-MB PNGs into responsive AVIF/WebP at build.

It’s the den where the three of us live β€” and where the easter eggs quietly point at the real builds: luna and companions online.

If you found the humans.txt, you already get the joke.