September 9, 2026
a real night sky at 66 degrees north
Laying out the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia at their true positions around Polaris, why they never set from Lovund's latitude, and the restraint it took to stop adding more.
Posts tagged "design"
September 8, 2026
pixel up close, smooth far away
The two-register rule behind the site's look: crisp pixel art for anything you look at directly, smooth traced silhouettes for anything meant to sit back as atmosphere.
September 7, 2026
the favicon that would not die
A redrawn favicon that refused to update in the tab, why it was never the container, and the query-string trick that finally forced it.
September 7, 2026
logging in without leaving
Login and register now open in a small dialog over the page, so you keep your place
September 6, 2026
why this blog is set in a serif
Why the whole site, headings and body both, runs in Literata instead of a sans-serif UI face, and the reading-measure math most blog templates skip.
September 6, 2026
making admin feel like the same place
September 6, 2026
giving the words something to sit on
September 6, 2026
the whole redesign, in one post
Stepping back over everything that changed: the green palette, the pixel mountain, sidebar nav, the birds, the night sky, and why light mode was the hard part.
September 4, 2026
the nav moved to the side
Moving the site nav from a top bar to a sidebar, with small pixel icons per section.
September 2, 2026
a pixel mountain
Drawing Lovundfjellet as pixel art for the header, and the fight to get the shape and the favicon right.