This site is a circuit board

2026-07-30

This site is a printed circuit board — solder-mask green, silkscreen lettering, gold pads. Every project I've shipped is a component on it, and this blog is the board's datasheet.

The stack, because someone will ask:

• The board is a static page on Cloudflare Pages. No framework, no build step, one stylesheet.
• This blog is a ~300-line engine: posts live in Workers KV as markdown, a Pages Function renders them with marked and caches the HTML at the edge. Reads are cache-hits; publishing is atomic; the whole thing runs on free tiers.
• Authoring is a /blog/admin page gated by Google sign-in. The ID token is verified against Google's JWKS in the function — no auth service, no sessions, no database.

Total running cost: about zero. That's the budget for everything on this board, and it's a fun constraint to design against.