i don’t have much to share so far, been reading documentation & doing miscellaneous work, but right now i’m getting myself carried away with color palettes and fonts and branding design first.

i designed a lil’ logo! i’ll update the banner for this project to include the logo and typography and whatnot, but i decided on fonts (dm sans for display, ibm plex sans/mono, i know hurr hurr very original). originally i was going to use space grotesk as the display/heading font but i didn’t want my website to look too much like axon robotics et al. and i didn’t want to use orbitron because i feel like the wordmark should be a distinct font/character.

i emailed gobilda asking about CAD file scraping and their GraphQL endpoint that I discovered (which unfortunately needs credentials…), which gives me an excuse to not worry about the parsing issues with the scraper until they email me back or a week has passed. so in the meantime, i’ll work on web design.

in terms of pure functionality though i did also add a static product page generator for each of the products, which was why i thought astro was a really great fit for this project since i’m focusing on moving more stuff to build-time and improving DX instead. i do want to set up an account system and auth and all that jazz because the next big feature would be automatic PRs from suggestions, that just adds/modifies a json file in a partdb overrides folder in the repo. that’ll also give me an excuse to validate my monorepo design by putting some of that logic in another package.

finally, i know in my ai policy i’m using ai very minimally and i’ve disabled ai features in vscode… but could we let this one slide :) why those hex codes specifically iykyk