How this site works

the sky is real

The background here is the actual sky over Vancouver, computed rather than photographed. A small solar model (NOAA's approximation, about sixty lines of math) works out where the sun is right now, and the palette follows it. Dawn is mauve. Noon is paper white. Golden hour floods everything amber, and after dusk the page turns into an observatory field log. The weather is real too: one small fetch to Open-Meteo, cached for half an hour. If that request fails, the sky simply carries on without it.

You can also grab the dial at the bottom of the home page and drag the sun around yourself. I spent more evenings on that dial than I want to admit.

no moving parts

There's no framework here, no build step, and no dependency beyond that one weather call. Plain HTML, one stylesheet, a few small scripts. The fonts are served from this domain. The pages stay small, while the gallery serves responsive images and lets browsers defer the rest. Deploying it means copying files to Cloudflare Pages.

I build large data and machine learning systems for a living, so a personal site this small is partly a rest and partly a point. Most pages don't need machinery. They need a reason to exist and some care.

the cat

At night, look up and to the right of my name. There's a constellation up there that doesn't appear in any star atlas. It was drawn for a long-haired black cat named Felfel, who supervised every commit. She has other doors into this site. I won't spoil them, but the keyboard is a good place to start.