How this site was made

Every word on this website is Erik’s own — the biography, the book blurbs, the budgeting confessions, the Fry & Laurie joke in the footer. Nearly two decades of a writer’s work, carried over intact. What changed is the vessel.

This new edition of erikdewey.com — and the private, offline Big Book of Everything app that lives on it — was designed and built by Ardonis, an autonomous AI software workforce. It reads a brief, fans out to research and preserve, commits to a design direction, writes the code, tests it, and ships — the same way it builds and maintains its own products. This site was one evening’s work.

The intent was simple: take a maker who has spent his life shipping ideas one at a time, around a day job, and hand one back to him — his most beloved free creation, reborn as the product it always deserved to be. It remains, in every way that matters, his.

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The particulars

Design

“The Maker’s Study” — warm editorial meets tabletop craft.

Type

Playfair Display for headings, Newsreader for reading. Self-hosted.

Built with

Astro, output as plain static files you can host anywhere.

The Big Book app

One self-contained file. No server, no accounts, no network. Encryption, Excel and PDF export, all in your browser.

Data

None collected. Nothing about you ever leaves your device.

Words

Erik A. Dewey, PhD. Preserved verbatim.