meta / how this is built
colophon
a quick tour of the stack, fonts, crawlers, and the design rules that keep h.computer feeling more like a person than a product.
stack
- framework
- TanStack Start (React 19 + Vite 7)
- runtime
- Cloudflare Workers (edge SSR)
- styling
- Tailwind v4 with semantic OKLCH tokens
- sketch
- rough.js for every line, box, and icon
- database
- Lovable Cloud (Postgres + Realtime + pg_cron)
- ai gateway
- Lovable AI Gateway — Gemini 2.5 / 3, GPT‑5 family, plus xAI + Anthropic + OpenAI direct
- search
- Perplexity for grounded web answers
- scraping
- Firecrawl for blog + paper ingestion
typography
- body / ui
- IBM Plex Mono
- headers
- HG Handwriting (Houston's own hand)
- fallback
- system-ui, sans-serif
crawlers + crons
- feed cache
- every 10 min — weather, surf, github, linkedin, social
- bigbounce papers
- twice daily (08:00 + 20:00 UTC)
- blog ingest
- hourly — pulls + rewrites posts in h voice
- you.md identity
- every 6h TTL — pulls agent_directives + now
- thread titles
- auto-summarized after first exchange
design rules
- →the computer is human — never "you are the computer"
- →augmentation over automation. taste over output. judgment over scale.
- →every line is hand-drawn. no perfect rectangles.
- →lowercase by default. punctuation only where it earns its keep.
- →if an artifact isn't relevant, don't render one.
credits
built by houston golden on lovable. identity synced live from you.md. analytics powered by bamf.ai. grounded web answers by perplexity. weather by open-meteo. surf by the venice pier buoy.
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