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How this site is built.

A portfolio about measured systems should be one. The footer of every page shows that page’s real load time, measured in your browser.

Static, with no framework at runtime

Astro renders every page to HTML at build time. There’s no client-side framework, and the only JavaScript on a page is a few small hand-written modules.

Real engines, off the main thread

Project pages run the production Epzero WebAssembly build (195 KB) and the Khonsu kernel (461 KB) inside Web Workers, so a search or a parse can’t block scrolling. Each one loads only as you approach it.

Numbers extracted, not typed

A script pulls benchmark data from each project’s raw results, and fails if Allfather’s stage counts don’t match its published summaries. The charts and exhibits read that output.

Motion that stays on the compositor

Reveals and the reading progress bar use CSS scroll-driven animations, and page changes use cross-document view transitions. Browsers without them show the content immediately, and reduced-motion settings are respected.

Strict by default

A strict content security policy allows only this site’s own scripts. Cross-origin isolation gives the engines 5 µs timers, which is what makes their live measurements meaningful.

Profiled while scrolling

Lighthouse never scrolls, and it missed a 646 ms freeze in an earlier version of this site. So the site is also profiled by scrolling the real pages and checking for long tasks.

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