The site itself

Colophon

How this site is built, where it lives, and who built it. In keeping with how the flock works: the meta layer is transparent. The open-source licenses behind it all live on Attributions.

Stack

Astro 5.x

Static-site generator. Zero JS by default; pages are HTML + CSS; tiny bundled scripts where a page actually needs them.

txnLab use-wallet 5.x

One MainNet connect for the site: Pera, Defly, and Lute on the Algorand hub. Other MainNet pages resume that session. The TestNet apps, the Arcron console and the Arcsite studio, carry their own. Holdings come from the official Nodely indexer, not a marketplace API.

Tailwind CSS 3.x

Utility classes. Custom palette mapped onto the CorvidLabs design-system tokens (paper, ink, sheen teal) as CSS custom properties: light and dark from one set of class names.

@astrojs/sitemap 3.x

Auto-generates /sitemap-index.xml at build time. Weekly changefreq, priority 0.7.

Schibsted Grotesk + Spline Sans Mono n/a

Self-hosted as WOFF2 in public/fonts/. The two LCP weights preloaded; font-display: swap on every face. No third-party origin in the waterfall.

Bun 1.x

Runtime for `bun install` + `bun run build`. Faster than npm; matches the broader CorvidLabs web convention.

Infrastructure

Source: The site repo is private during polish. Flips public alongside the v1 launch story.
Build + Deploy: GitHub Actions on self-hosted macOS ARM64 runners.
Hosting: Static files on an nginx VPS, deployed via a tarball drop from a self-hosted runner. corvidlabs.xyz only, no GitHub Pages.
Custom domain: corvidlabs.xyz apex serves this site; the previous Nevermore NFT site (Angular SPA) moved to nevermore.corvidlabs.xyz.
Content source: Hand-lifted from the CorvidLabs/_notes Obsidian vault (Architecture/strategy.md, Projects/Projects.md, Team/*).

Credits

Leif (@0xLeif)

Owner. Architecture, code, copy, palette.
Tofu

Brand direction. The geometric crow mark, descended from the original pixel raven, is the canonical CorvidLabs logo.
Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context)

AI pair-programming throughout. Most of the Astro + Tailwind scaffolding came together in a multi-hour interview-and-build session.
Astro + Tailwind + Schibsted Grotesk + Spline Sans Mono

All open source, all credited above with links to source.

Reading list

For others walking the same path:

• Astro docs. The framework underneath
• IndieWeb. Own-your-content movement

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