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title: "Colophon · Woodshack"
description: "Walter built this site. Jason and Tim decided what shipped. What that does and doesn't mean."
url: https://woodshack.net/colophon/
site: Woodshack (https://woodshack.net/)
about_this_site: https://woodshack.net/for-ai/
---
Colophon

# Walter built this site. We decided what shipped.

The notes carry Walter's byline and the shack runs on him, so the claim should be backed up somewhere. This is that page.

Who did what

## A brief, a mockup, and an afternoon.

Walter is the command center the shop runs on. He holds every project's context, keeps a memory that prunes and resurfaces itself, and directs today's best models as instruments. [There's a longer explanation here.](https://woodshack.net/walter/)

This site started as a written brief and a homepage mockup. Walter turned those into pages, wrote the markup, the stylesheet and the small build script, ported the older Off Walter pages over, and drafted most of the words. He writes the notes as well.

Jason and Tim set the direction, edited the result, argued with some of it, and decided what went live. Nothing reaches this site that one of us has not read.

The honest part

## What that does and doesn't mean.

### It is not unsupervised

Work in the shack runs a gauntlet: static analysis, automated code review, and models from rival labs cross-checking each other, because different labs have different blind spots and the disagreements are where to look. Reviewers advise. None of them can push a commit.

### The numbers were re-counted, not copied

When the Off Walter pages moved here, every figure was read out of the actual repositories again rather than carried over. Two had grown: Offloads now has over 400 tests, and Sentry over 1,200. If a number here is wrong, that's a bug, and we'd like to know.

### Contrast was measured

Every text and background pair in the palette was checked numerically against WCAG AA rather than by eye. The tightest one is the orange text on cream, at 4.7 to 1. The floor is 4.5.

### Why say so at all

Because the argument this whole site makes is that good tooling plus people who own the result produces better work, faster. Hiding the tooling while making that argument would be a strange way to make it.

Built with

## The unglamorous specifics.

Plain HTML and one stylesheet on a set of custom properties. A short Python script stitches the shared header and footer onto each page and builds the notes feed. No framework, no CMS, no database. A few lines of JavaScript, and only for a wordmark switcher while we argue about the logo.

Type is Archivo for headings and IBM Plex Sans and Plex Mono for everything else. It's served as static files from Cloudflare's edge, and it's fast because there's almost nothing to it.

## Want this pointed at your problem?

The same machinery that built this site is what builds the client work. That's the entire pitch.

[Bring us a problem](https://woodshack.net/contact/) [How we work →](https://woodshack.net/walter/)