The Technical Stack

Tools and technologies employed in service of content

11 February 2026

This site, though appearing simple, doth employ a sophisticated technical foundation.

Content & Generation

Hugo — A static site generator of remarkable speed, written in Go. Transforms markdown into HTML with great efficiency.

Markdown — The text format employed for all articles. Simple, portable, and future-proof.

Typography

EB Garamond — A revival of Claude Garamont’s humanist typeface, digitized by Georg Duffner. Used for body text.

JetBrains Mono — A monospaced font designed for developers. Used for code, dates, and metadata.

Infrastructure

AWS S3 — Object storage hosting all static files.

CloudFront — Content delivery network providing global distribution with low latency.

Route53 — DNS management connecting the domain name to the infrastructure.

Certificate Manager — Automated SSL/TLS certificate provisioning and renewal.

Deployment

Python 3 — Scripting language for deployment automation.

Boto3 — AWS SDK for Python, managing S3 uploads and CloudFront invalidation.

Git — Version control tracking all changes to content and code.

GitHub Actions — Continuous deployment pipeline (configured for automatic publishing).

Design Philosophy

The technical stack, though sophisticated, remains invisible to the reader. The focus is upon the content, not the technology.

Typography is clean and classical. No JavaScript frameworks burden the page. The HTML is semantic and accessible. The CSS is minimal yet comprehensive.

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

This principle guides all technical decisions.

Performance

• Build time: ~12ms for 25 pages
• Bundle size: ~12KB HTML per page (including inline CSS)
• Time to first byte: <100ms (CloudFront)
• JavaScript: 0KB (none required)

Speed through simplicity. Elegance through constraint.

Technology in service of content, not for its own sake.