Design Philosophy
The site is hand-coded by Emily Tiffany Joy in HTML and CSS. It uses minimal JavaScript for interactivity and has been analyzed across multiple large language models. No third-party libraries are used. All content is accessible without JavaScript enabled. It is designed to be fast and secure while providing a pleasant reading experience.
Aesthetics
The color scheme is dark with high-contrast text for readability. The nav bar on mobile does not hide behind a menu button. The preloaded, self-hosted font is Literata, a ~12 KB subset serif font. It is intended to evoke the feel of traditional printed literature.
Network Support and Privacy
The site is tested in text-based terminal web browsers with full support for GPRS and 2G networks. Currently, all resources are either first-party or via Clarity and Cloudflare through Cloudflare CDN and edge proxy. SSL Labs gives the site an "A+" rating. Site successfully submitted to Chrome's HSTS preload list as of January 28, 2026.
Google Chrome Lighthouse
Representative measurement (Jan 28, 2026): Performance 100 (FCP 0.2 s, LCP 0.6 s, TBT 0 ms, CLS 0, Speed index 0.2 s), Accessibility 100, Best Practices 81 (not 100 solely due to Cloudflare protection using an older API for backwards compatibility), SEO 100. No first-party console errors or warnings in Firefox or Chrome.
Security Headers
The site is rated Grade "A" by a leading security header analysis tool. Inline styles are the only exception preventing a perfect "A+" score, which is a trade-off for performance and design flexibility. Inline styles are intentionally used to reduce render-blocking requests and avoid additional CSP complexity.
Total Site Files
All HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and font files currently total less than 200 KB uncompressed. The entire site, including images, is less than 4 MB uncompressed on a Linux filesystem.
Performance
Hosted on Cloudflare Pages with Cloudflare CDN and caching enabled, and average TTFB is under 100 ms globally. All pages load in under 2 seconds on a standard broadband connection.
Technical Files
Links to important technical files for transparency and verification:
SEO Scanner (seobility)
Representative measurement (Jan 28, 2026): Metadata 100%, Page quality 75% (reflecting intentionally concise landing page content under 800 words), Page structure 100%, Links 100%, Server 100%.
Design Environment
The site is designed and coded in a Linux environment. Graphics are created in GIMP, and the font subset accomplished through CLI tools. The IDE used is VS Code. Multiple frontier AI models have analyzed the site for quality and compliance. Minification and versioning are handled via a shell script.