How this site is built

The stack#

Bytecairn lives entirely on Cloudflare’s edge network. Every page is rendered close to the reader and then served straight from cache — there is no origin server, no fleet of boxes to babysit, and nothing between you and the page but the nearest point of presence. Media gets its own CDN domain so images never compete with pages.

Writing and rendering#

Posts are written in plain Markdown and rendered to HTML before they ever reach the browser. Code blocks are highlighted on the server, so syntax colour costs the reader nothing. Mermaid diagrams, Chart.js charts, and KaTeX math are self-hosted and lazy-loaded only on pages that actually use them — a plain article ships no third-party JavaScript at all.

Type#

Headlines are set in Space Grotesk, body text in Newsreader, and code plus the small uppercase labels in JetBrains Mono.

Privacy posture#

No ads, no trackers, no cookies for readers. Comments and the contact form are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile instead of a CAPTCHA puzzle, and analytics, when enabled, are cookie-less aggregates.

This page describes the site as deployed today; when the stack changes, this page changes with it.