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Set in EB Garamond and JetBrains Mono. Built on Next.js 16 + Postgres 17 with pgvector + Drizzle ORM, deployed to Vercel atop a Neon Postgres branch.

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The Way Things Work

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Comment ça marche
Comment ça marche
Como funcionan las cosas
Cómo funcionan las cosas
Jak to działa?
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