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A small note on how this site is built — for fellow tinkerers and for future me, when I forget.

Stack

• Astro — static site generator. Pages are plain .astro files with a sprinkle of TypeScript. Almost no client-side JavaScript ships unless a page actually needs it.
• Vercel — hosts the production build. Every push to main triggers a deploy.
• Cloudinary — stores and serves every photo and drawing. The gallery on /photos reads tag-based JSON lists at runtime, so new uploads appear without a rebuild.
• GitHub — source of truth. Public on purpose; copy whatever's useful.

Type

Body text is set in Inter. Headings and pull quotes are in Newsreader. Both are loaded from Google Fonts and rendered in the simplest weights I could justify.

Color

A muted ochre accent ( #b6743a) over a warm off-white. The palette flips automatically based on prefers-color-scheme; there's no manual toggle yet.

Tools

• VS Code + GitHub Copilot — editor and pair-programmer.
• Open Library Covers — book covers on the bookshelf and favorites, fetched by ISBN.
• Astro Sitemap — generates sitemap-index.xml at build time.
• Vercel Web Analytics — privacy-friendly, only loaded after cookie consent.

Principles

• Static where possible, dynamic where helpful.
• No tracking, no ads, no popovers begging for email.
• Plain HTML and CSS first; JS only when the experience needs it.
• Words over animations.

Source

The site lives at github.com/findkunal/findkunal-site. Open an issue if something's broken, or just have a look around.