Shippori Mincho

Departure Mono

11ty (now Build Awesome) as the static site generator.

VS Code to code.

Sketchbook to draw the wizard.

Inkscape to turn the wizard into an SVG.

Claude Opus 4.8 for troubleshooting.

Github for a repo.

Netlify to deploy.

Squarespace for domain registration.

Catlit by Aidan Quinlan for the initial inspiration for a redesign, specifically the clean list design and simple illustration.

Tom MacWright for introducing me to 11ty via his blog post about migrating.

Tilt.computer for worming its way into my brain with the ever-inspiring "How did they do that?" nagging question. I copy-pasted their texture approach and tweaked it a bit, as indicated in my HTML and CSS comments.

Studio Balcony for producing this wizard illustration that I used as inspiration for my own wizard illustration.

The only part of this site that's LLM-generated used Claude Opus 4.8 to generate the list/grid toggle on the homepage. I intend to pick this apart and recode it myself when I get the chance. Otherwise, I use Claude as a research partner and a way to "Google" when Googling isn't giving me what I need.

For example, I was having trouble getting the month labels in the "Previously On" sections to have a background that only applied to the copy. Claude helped me find the right solution here with width:fit-content. That may be pretty basic, but I'm a beginner! It saved me quite a bit of time and I still learned what I needed to learn.

Here is a playlist of some music I listened to while building this site: