Colophon

How this site is set up.

Re:Porter is a small, stubbornly typographic site about education, technology, and society. It is published from Adelaide and maintained quietly. This page is the colophon — a short accounting of the tools and decisions that shape it.

Stack

Framework: Next.js App Router with Turbopack, built against the Node runtime. ↗
Content: Sanity as the content system — articles, visual essays, about, desk and field notes are all structured content with portable-text bodies. ↗
Hosting: Vercel for builds, Fluid Compute for the runtime, and the platform CDN for edge caching. ↗
Styling: Tailwind CSS driving a narrow token set — display, body, mono faces; canvas, ink, rule, accent; a handful of topic accents. ↗
Analytics: Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights. No third-party trackers, no advertising pixels, no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.

Typography

Display: Gloock — a contemporary take on transitional serifs; used for titles and wayfinding. ↗
Body: Onest — an open, humanist sans with a wide weight axis; used for essay prose and UI. ↗
Mono: JetBrains Mono — familiar and well-drawn; used for code, tabular data, and eyebrows. ↗

Stance

Accessibility: Colour and rule tokens are tuned for AA contrast on both themes; motion respects the reduced-motion preference; every interactive region has a visible focus ring.
Privacy: No cookies beyond what Vercel sets for its own analytics, which are aggregated and IP-hashed. Nothing is sold. Nothing follows you around the web.
In revision: Some essays are marked “in revision” — the writing is live but the thinking is not finished. If you find a thread worth pulling, reach out.