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How this site is made.
Typefaces
Four families, each doing one job.
Outfit handles display and headings: the wordmark, section titles, anything that should feel like a cover. Lora carries the long-form prose; calmer rhythm than a sans-serif over three lines. Barlow takes labels, captions, and small UI text; legible at twelve pixels. JetBrains Mono handles code, identifiers, and the blinking cursor inside the wordmark. Self-hosted in meanwhile_website/public/fonts/; Google Fonts CSS as a fallback.
Tools
The platform stack.
The site runs on Frappe v16, the same software we ship to customers. The site is itself a Frappe app, packaged as meanwhile_website. Editable bodies are managed in Frappe Builder. MariaDB and Redis form the persistence layer; Caddy handles TLS.
Data sources
What we ask the network for.
Open-Meteo supplies the weather reading in the top ribbon: free, no API key, no tracking. geojs.io resolves your IP to a city for the visitor greeting; the lookup is server-side and the result is not stored. Anthropic Claude (Haiku 4.5) powers the Operator dock, accessed through a whitelisted Frappe method that scrubs URLs and PII before each call.
Attribution
Built by humans, assisted by Operator.
Source available on request; write to operator@meanwhile.computer. The four typefaces ship under their respective licences (SIL OFL or Apache 2.0). The Frappe app code is MIT-licensed.