First post on the new blog.

The design borrows from the November 1984 cover of A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing: cream paper, a cyan grid running back to a vanishing point, a red masthead, and a robot floating in an empty room. I kept the paper, the grid and the red, and swapped the robot for a cassette.

Why a magazine

I liked the idea of treating the blog like a periodical, with an issue number, a price on the cover, and the articles listed over the artwork. The post list on the front page is that cover list: each post gets a track number, a dotted leader and a date.

How it’s built

It’s Astro with a bit of TypeScript. The pages are static, there’s no client framework, and nothing is tracked.

There are two fonts:

• Departure Mono for the uppercase stuff: masthead, headings, track numbers.
• JetBrains Mono for body text.

The handle

On a wide screen there’s a small drag handle in the top-left corner. Drag it and the column moves across the page one grid cell at a time. Your browser remembers where you left it.