This Website

The visual style of the Volumes is heavily based on The Pond by TurnTrout, as requested by the author the Volumes is open sourced under the CC by-sa 4.0. Alex has made a very cool website and I recommend checking it out. That said, a lot has been modified, and I will try my best to document these modifications, as well as unique features here. The Volumes is heavily vibe-coded, currently with Big Pickle, since I couldn’t be bothered learning to code. Taking this into account, if you want to take anything from this website—feel free to do so, but consider checking out the original. While it is a more complicated project, it is most likely much more stable and well rounded.

The “under the hood” changes

Deployment

This site uses a simplified deployment pipeline compared to The Pond. The infrastructure that Alex has built is really cool, however, once again I could not be bothered with it. You can check out said infrastructure here. The vast majority of this system was gutted. The original system included such things as:

• Playwright (33+ shards)
• Visual regression
• Lighthouse performance
• Accessibility (pa11y)
• Site build checks
• Shared build artifacts

Vs the current, simplified, setup:

• Checkout → Install pnpm → Install Dependencies
• Install Playwright Browsers (for offline build)
• Install FFmpeg (for media processing)
• Setup Python Environment (via uv)
• Build Static Site → Deploy to Cloudflare Pages

Added back the publish: false behavior

I like to “marinate” some of my notes, hence this change.

Visual changes

The site uses Gruvbox color scheme.

Color Palette

List of features, that are yet to be implemented

• A full graph view of the Volumes. The Pond, from what I can tell, had the module cut out
• Change the meta stuff (the pasting link images and title). Almost done, finish the embed image
• Implement the eye with tracking
• Fix the mobile picture
• Fix the Cyrillic drop-cap
• Add visual book meta