This site
How this site is built and checked
I designed and built this site, and I treat it like the systems I describe on it. It has a small design system, its drawings are data, and every page passes the same checks before it ships.
What it is made of
- Next.js (App Router), React and TypeScript, styled with Tailwind CSS. Every page is generated ahead of time.
- No other runtime dependencies. The system drawings, the charts and the animated view on the home page are hand-written SVG.
- All copy and data live as typed objects, apart from the layout code, so a number or a case study changes in one place.
- The fonts are Newsreader, Geist and Geist Mono, served from the site itself. The pages make no third-party requests.
- Built with AI coding tools, then checked by script and by eye.
A small design system
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Geist for reading
Geist Mono for labels
- Paper
- Paper 2
- Rule
- Ink 2
- Ink
- Accent
- Stage
- Two surfaces
- Paper is for words. The dark stage is where running systems are drawn.
- Ownership is visible
- A solid box is something I built and own. A dashed box belongs to another team.
- Motion explains
- A dot travels the way the data flows. Nothing moves by itself for a visitor who asked for reduced motion.
- One accent
- A single accent colour, dark enough to pass WCAG AA as small text on both paper tones.
Checks every page passes
- Pages load with no errors or failed requests
- 17 pages × 5 setups, none found
- Sideways scrolling and broken images
- none found
- One main heading per page, no skipped levels, every image and control named
- none found
- Text contrast at WCAG AA, light and dark
- 32 page views, all pass
- Keyboard: every stop shows a focus ring
- 198 stops on 5 pages, all ringed
- Readable with JavaScript off
- 16 pages, nothing hidden
- Nothing moves by itself under reduced motion
- holds
- Resume prints on Letter paper
- 2 pages
- Touch targets under 40 px on a phone
- 3 of 549
Run by script against the built pages. Last run: 2026-11-11.
Seven views of one site
The home page can open on the kind of work closest to a role. A view changes the introduction and the order of the work. The facts are the same in all of them.