Colophon

This site is a static archive — no database, no auth, no server. Just markdown and HTML, prebuilt and shipped to a CDN. The whole thing exists to document one specific thing carefully, then get out of its own way.

Stack

• Astro 5 for the static site itself. Pages are a mix of .astro (when I need full layout control) and .mdx (when prose dominates).
• Svelte 5 for the handful of interactive islands — the theme toggle and the search modal. Runes throughout.
• Tailwind v4 using its CSS-first config (@theme in a single global.css). All color tokens, fonts, and sizes live in one place.
• MDX via @astrojs/mdx for inline Astro components inside prose.
• Shiki for code highlighting, with light/dark themes set at build time — no client JS, no flash.
• Pagefind for client-side search. The index is generated at build time and shipped as static files alongside the site.
• astro-icon + Lucide for iconography.
• rehype-mermaid sits in the pipeline for sequence/flow diagrams — used selectively (most diagrams here are hand-laid ASCII because they read better at small sizes).
• Deployed via GitHub Actions to GitHub Pages. The whole workflow is one file at .github/workflows/deploy.yml.

Bun for installs and builds. No CI tests because the only thing to verify is “does it build” and that’s the deploy step.

Design choices

The visual language is intentionally a hybrid of two reference sites:

• maximeheckel.com — for narrative warmth, typographic intent, and a personal voice.
• ccunpacked.dev — for reference density, dense tables, and “everything in one place” navigation.

Palette is called field notes: ivory #FAF8F3 paper, navy #0F1419 dark, a single ochre accent #C08F3C used sparingly. Display type is Newsreader, body is Inter, code is JetBrains Mono. All three are open-source and served from Google Fonts. The pilcrow (¶) in the brand mark is a small joke — appropriate for what is, ultimately, a long-form footnote.

What I didn’t use

• No analytics. Nothing tracks you.
• No comment system, no engagement widgets, no signup form.
• No CMS — every page is a file in the repo.
• No server, no API routes, no edge functions.
• No JavaScript on most pages. The pages that do ship JS (those with the theme toggle or search modal) ship ~25 KB total.

Framing

This is a portfolio piece and a personal archive. It is not an official post-mortem from the company that owned Currnt, and it is not affiliated with any operating Currnt entity. Everything here is reconstructed from direct technical recon of a frozen production system the author owned access to. Sensitive material — API keys, exact credentials, internal-only identifiers — is referenced categorically, never quoted.

If you’re reading this because you’re thinking about working with the author: the source is at github.com/myascendai/currnt-unpacked. The full unredacted PRD lives in a separate repo and isn’t public.

License

Dual-licensed for clarity:

• Code — anything that isn’t prose, diagram source, or content — is under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.
• Content — the prose, diagrams, written analysis — is under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Attribution is required under both. Commercial use is not permitted under either. Contact the author for other arrangements.

Source

github.com/myascendai/currnt-unpacked. Issues, corrections, and questions welcome there.