How this site is made.

Astro on Cloudflare

Astro keeps the editorial pages close to plain HTML and Markdown. Cloudflare handles the Worker, static assets, D1, KV, and the scheduled Bay Area Radar digest. That combination lets one site hold quiet field notes and working data products without forcing either into the other's shape.

Eleven zones

The neutral palette follows the photographic Zone System from 0 through X. Zone V is the middle gray reference. Zone X is the paper. The alpenglow red is the one interface accent.

1. Zone 0 --zone-0
2. Zone I --zone-i
3. Zone II --zone-ii
4. Zone III --zone-iii
5. Zone IV --zone-iv
6. Zone V --zone-v
7. Zone VI --zone-vi
8. Zone VII --zone-vii
9. Zone VIII --zone-viii
10. Zone IX --zone-ix
11. Zone X --zone-x

The reference point is the National Archives' Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments, including the unfinished 1941 to 1942 Mural Project.

Type and photographs

Newsreader carries the display headings. Archivo handles the interface and body copy. JetBrains Mono is reserved for dates, facts, and plate labels.

Trip photographs run in full color, the way the places actually looked. Product screenshots stay in color too, because they are evidence, not memories.

Privacy

The public portfolio pages do not load a third-party analytics script. Cloudflare provides the infrastructure and its configured observability. The World Cup and Radar owner gates use signed session cookies.

Bay Area Radar stores the email address and preferences a subscriber submits, uses Cloudflare Turnstile on its forms, and sends the digest through Resend. DeDuper's photo analysis stays on device.

AI assistance

AI tools assisted with code, design exploration, testing, and copy editing. I am responsible for the published facts, trip notes, and final edits.

Change log

July 2026: rebuilt the site around the Zone System, replaced ambient effects with editorial structure, deepened the trip archive, and added this set of working notes.