Hello, World

2026-07-07 #meta edit

This site borrows its reading experience from gwern.net: monochrome serif typography, sidenotes, hover previews, and collapsible sections — without the thousand-hour maintenance budget. This page exists to demonstrate (and test) each feature.

Sidenotes

Footnotes like this one1 appear in the right margin when your window is wide enough, and as ordinary footnotes at the bottom on narrow screens. Hover over the footnote marker to get a popup preview2 instead of jumping.

Hovering an internal link, like this one to the notes page, fetches the target and shows the first few paragraphs in a popup. External links are left alone.

Collapsible sections

Details you can hide

Anything can go in here — long asides, raw data, digressions. It’s a native <details> element, so it works with JavaScript disabled.

Media

Audio files live in public/media/ and embed with a plain HTML tag:

<audio controls src="/media/example.mp3"></audio>

Code

def pomodoro(minutes: int = 25) -> None:
    """The site also hosts small apps — see /apps."""
    ...

Footnotes

  1. This is a sidenote. On a wide screen it sits in the margin, aligned with the sentence that references it.

  2. Popups also work for internal links — hover any link to another page on this site and you’ll see an excerpt.