Will Chassaing

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How this site is made.

A small place to credit the stack, hosting, type, and design influences. Updated as decisions land.

Stack

  • Astro static site generation, TypeScript across the project.
  • Markdown content collections for songs, photography, art, design, and projects.
  • Cloudflare Pages for hosting; willchassaing.com as the canonical apex.
  • GitHub Actions running astro check and the static build on every push to master.

Type

  • Inter — body and UI on Foundation (the developer-docs theme).
  • Figtree — body and display on Astrofy (the calm photo-led theme).
  • Fraunces — display on Milky Way (the colorful editorial theme).
  • JetBrains Mono — accents and code on Foundation.

Theme previews

Three live design directions ship side-by-side and can be flipped from the footer. Foundation is the technical read — dark, sidebar-driven, restrained. Milky Way is the colorful, portfolio-shaped read. Astrofy is the calm, photo-led long-scroll. The final site will pick one (or split into two surfaces).

Influences

  • Astro docs, Vercel docs, Linear, and Cloudflare Workers docs for the Foundation read.
  • Editorial portfolios with expressive serifs for the Milky Way read.
  • Astrofy and other photo-forward portfolios for the Astrofy read.