How this site was made

Colophon

Every good book used to end with a note about how it was made. This is ours: the type, the art, the tools, and the robots we let near it.

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Type

Chivo: Headlines and body copy. Designed by Omnibus-Type. SIL Open Font License.
VT323: The pixel type in buttons, menus, and terminals. Designed by Peter Hull. SIL Open Font License.
JetBrains Mono: The ASCII diagrams, because it actually has all the box-drawing characters. Designed by JetBrains. SIL Open Font License.

Illustrations: The megaphone, the computer, the paper clip, Minnesota, and the rest of the gang are WebVolta originals, drawn by our design team.
Palette: Teal #2CFEF2 does most of the talking, with purple, pink, orange, and friends on call. Black outlines, always.

The look: The terminals, box-drawing diagrams, and ASCII portraits aren’t a costume. Our co-founder Nic started calling local BBSes around 1990 and ran his own, DARK KNiGHT BBS, from 1994 (he was 13) into the early 2000s, out on FidoNet with everyone else. This site is what happens when that kid grows up and builds AI systems for a living.
On the air: Nic is also a licensed ham, KF0WWR, working FT8 across the HF bands and building toward an over-the-air BBS of his own. 73.

Code: Hand-written HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No framework, no npm packages, and a small Node script that stitches the pages together.
Weight: 63.6 KB of CSS and 17.7 KB of JavaScript, before compression. The old site shipped 4.6 MB of CSS, so we feel pretty good about this.
Content: 34 blog posts and 5 case studies, every old URL still working.
Last built: 2026-10-10

Hosting: GitHub Pages, deployed by GitHub Actions on every merge.
Editing: Changes start as GitHub issues. The GitHub Copilot coding agent drafts them as pull requests, every one gets a staging preview, and a human approves before anything goes live. Yes, it's the same setup we build for clients.
Analytics: Google Analytics, so we know which pages people actually read.