How this site is built.

This site runs on Astro and is deployed to Cloudflare Workers. Every page is statically rendered at build time — there's no server, no database, and nothing to keep running.

Type is set in Inter for body and headings, IBM Plex Mono for metadata and labels, and JetBrains Mono for code. All three are loaded locally via Fontsource so nothing is fetched from a third party at request time.

Writing lives as Markdown (with MDX where I want a component), research papers live as Markdown with structured frontmatter, and projects and talks are plain TypeScript modules. Everything sits in version control. The author list on each paper is rendered with my name auto-bolded so I never have to remember to do it by hand.

Writing and design on this site are © 2026 Sambit Panda. Source is private. Cloudflare's privacy-respecting Web Analytics is the only thing tracking page views — no cookies, no fingerprinting, no third parties. No ads, no popups. The design is intentionally plain: hairline borders, two font weights, a single accent color, sentence-case everywhere. If something here feels off, please tell me.