Why this site exists

2026-09-09 / updated 2026-09-10 meta

Hardware projects generate notes: measurements, dead ends, part numbers, photos of a scope screen. Most of that ends up scattered across a lab notebook, a chat history, and a README nobody updates. This site is the fix. Every project gets one overview page, and every working session that produces something worth keeping becomes a dated log entry under it.

A few rules keep it cheap to maintain:

Static HTML built by Hugo, hosted on S3 behind CloudFront. No server, no database, nothing to patch.
No JavaScript, no external fonts, no analytics. The page you see is the page that was written.
Publishing is a git push. A GitHub Actions workflow builds the site and syncs it to the bucket.
A build log belongs to exactly one project. Logs get corrected in place when I learn better; git keeps the history.

This entry is the one exception: it belongs to the site itself, not to a project. Everything after it is project work.

Projects currently listed: Byte Hamr, an ECP5-85K FPGA peripheral card for the Apple IIe, plus several others that are still stubs. The projects page shows current status for each.