Colophon — how this site works
What you're reading and how it's put together. Shares its visual language with the main portfolio at rether.fr ↗ but runs as its own thing on this subdomain.
The build
Every note is a .md file inside src/content/notes/. The folder path becomes
the sidebar folder; the filename becomes the slug. Folders, the recent list, the
tag index, search, and the backlink graph are all derived at build time by Astro
— there's no database, no CMS, and no runtime server.
Backlinks
Inside a note, slug is a wiki link. At build time the body is compiled to
HTML with the slug syntax preserved. On load the site scans every note for
those references and inverts the map, so each page knows who points at it. The
note-taking philosophy behind it is in How I take notes.
Type & colour
JetBrains Mono for body and code, Space Grotesk for display. A warm paper background, one terracotta accent, and a dark mode that's actually dark — the same system the portfolio uses, so the two feel like one studio.
To add a note: create a .md file anywhere under src/content/notes/, run npm run build. Nothing else needs to change.