My New Website

Dylansatow.com has been freed from virtual DOMs and boilerplate, and rebuilt around the simplicity and speed of Svelte.

This version is a ground-up redesign. The goals were narrow and stubborn: it should be fast, it should be mobile-first rather than mobile-as-an-afterthought, and it should feel like a proper terminal — specifically, a focused window in a tiling window manager.

The stack

• SvelteKit (Svelte 5) with runes for clean, VDOM-free reactivity
• Tailwind CSS v4 for visual consistency without a component-library tax
• mdsvex to render this very post from Markdown
• Prerendering — every page is static HTML on a CDN, so loads are effectively instant
• A self-hosted, subset JetBrains Mono (~31KB) with zero-CLS fallback metrics

The design

The whole thing is styled as a focused tiling-WM window: a 2px Catppuccin Lavender border on a darker crust backdrop, a user@host:path title bar, and a vim-style status line along the bottom. Sharp corners — on purpose.

It’s keyboard-driven if you want it: h/l switch sections, j/k move, Enter opens, ? shows help. And if you don’t speak vim, everything scrolls, taps, and clicks exactly like you’d expect — on every device.

What’s next

The follow-up I keep threatening to build: an actual TUI version of this site in Go/Bubbletea, as faithful to the real thing as I can make it.