manual

What this instrument is, who built it, and how it is calibrated.

An astrolabe was an instrument for navigating by the sky: precise, handmade, and built to be used.

This studio borrows the idea, and this site is the first instrument. Every project here is built end to end by one person, and this page is its manual: what it is made of, who made it, and where it is calibrated.

the dial.

The three buttons in the bottom bar decide how far the casing is opened. They change what the site tells you, not how it looks — the verbosity flags mean here what they mean in a terminal.

-v: The site. What anyone gets without asking for more.
-vv: The reasons, written by hand, in the margin beside the thing they explain.
-vvv: The machine's own account: measured sizes, token names, and the file each fact was read from.

The dial is explained here rather than only on arrival. A reader who skips the welcome, returns tomorrow or follows a deep link would otherwise never be told what the three codes do — so the explanation lives in the manual, and this note is the proof that the mechanism layer explains the mechanism.

src/lib/depth.ts
control	three positions
stored	per reader, in this browser

the person.

m. miftahusfounder

One person, from the first wireframe to the last deploy. Nothing here is handed off, and nothing waits on anyone else.

Astrolabs is built by M. Miftahus in banyuwangi, indonesia — −8.2192, 114.3691, UTC+7. One person means there is no handoff between the design and the code, and it means the instrument is calibrated to one set of hours: a message sent in the European morning is read that evening here.

The place is a calibration, not a credential. Where the work happens decides what hours it answers in, and that is the only claim this paragraph is allowed to make — the readout above carries the same fact as a reading.

−8.2192, 114.3691 · UTC+7

src/data/contact.ts
COORDINATES	−8.2192, 114.3691
UTC_OFFSET	UTC+7
PLACE	banyuwangi, indonesia

the mark.

astrolabs.

A plate with a rule cut through it: the instrument with its casing shut. Open the casing and the mark opens with it — the plate thins to an outline and the graduated limb it was covering comes out. The outline never changes, because a favicon gets no dial. The wordmark beside it is the same monospace as everything else, declining the uppercase register on purpose, and that is the one place the two registers are meant to meet.

color.

ground--ground

surface--surface

foreground--fg

accent--accent

One ground, one raised surface, one text tone, one accent. The accent does all the pointing; everything else stays quiet.

Four values, not a palette. Each one has a job — a ground, one raised surface, one text tone, one accent that does all the pointing — and a fifth would have to take work away from one of them to earn its place.

src/app/globals.css
ground	--ground
surface	--surface
foreground	--fg
accent	--accent

voice.

one face, two voices

Structure is set in uppercase monospace, tracked out: headings, labels, anything that frames. The machine register is the same face set tight — readout values, numbers, the studio name. Case and spacing carry the difference, not a second typeface.

direct

Short sentences. Concrete words. No filler verbs, no marketing gloss.

technical

Monospace, paths, and file names are part of the voice. A prompt appears where something is actually read from a machine — the telemetry, the log — and not as furniture at the top of a page.