Acknowledgments & Colophon

The Gratitude Stack

Crosscurrent Code is a lean publishing stack rather than a sprawling app platform, and that is by design. This page is a short colophon for the tools, platforms, and communities that currently keep the site running.

Platform & Deployment

Astro →

The site framework behind the current build. Astro keeps the publishing flow fast, content-driven, and simple to reason about.

Cloudflare →

The site is deployed on Cloudflare's edge platform with the Cloudflare adapter, so pages and assets are served close to the reader.

Wrangler →

The CLI that handles local development, type generation, previewing, and deployment to Cloudflare Workers.

Publishing & Content

Markdown and MDX →

The editorial core of the site. Posts and pages live as content files, which keeps the writing portable and easy to maintain.

Astro Content Collections →

The structure that keeps frontmatter validated and routes predictable across posts and standalone pages.

Astro RSS & Sitemap →

Handle the feed and sitemap so the site stays readable by both humans and crawlers.

Media & Build Pipeline

Sharp →

Used in the image pipeline to keep media optimized and web-friendly.

Vanilla CSS →

The presentation layer is intentionally custom rather than framework-heavy, which keeps the visual system site-specific instead of template-shaped.

Workflow & Tooling

Zed →

The high-performance editor where most of the writing, restructuring, and refactoring happens.

GitHub →

Source control, revision history, and the place where the project stays organized.

Google Antigravity →

Google's agentic IDE, used for agent-first development and codebase exploration.

Devin AI →

Cognition's AI agent for autonomous engineering tasks, used for multi-step refactors and feature work.

MiMo Code →

Xiaomi's terminal-native coding agent, used for long-horizon tasks and plan-driven changes.

OpenCode →

The open-source coding agent, used as a portable terminal-first assistant across environments.

GitHub Copilot →

Used as an assistant for implementation, refactoring, and documentation work.

pnpm →

The package manager used to keep installs fast and dependency handling predictable.

The Foundation: Open Source & Community

Beyond any specific dependency, Crosscurrent Code depends on the wider open-source ecosystem: maintainers, contributors, bug reporters, documentation writers, and the people who keep the web usable through patient engineering work. This site is smaller than that ecosystem, but it benefits from it every day.

If this page is out of date, that is on us, not on the tools. The stack evolves, and the colophon should evolve with it.