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Stacks is a static-first publication. Pages are prerendered at build time, served from Railway, and designed to stay fast and readable for years.

Stack

  • Astro 6 — framework, routing, content layer
  • MDX — long-form posts with custom components
  • Tailwind CSS v4 — utility styling via design tokens
  • Shiki — syntax highlighting at build time
  • Railway — hosting with Node adapter

Typography

Display type is Fraunces (OFL). Body and UI use Inter (OFL). Code uses JetBrains Mono (OFL). All faces are self-hosted and subset for Latin.

Design

Cream canvas (#faf8f3), clay accent (#bd6a43), hairline borders, and no gradients. Dark mode flips via CSS custom properties defined in the design system.

Publishing

Content lives in version-controlled MDX. Keystatic provides the admin UI and live preview; Pagefind powers search; Satori generates OG images at build time.

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