A colophon tells you how something was made. This is the one for this site.
The site
yassermasood.ddev.site is a personal publishing site built with Laravel. Entries live in a structured database, with English and Urdu treated as first-class parts of the same place. The current design and code were developed by Yasser Masood with help from OpenAI Codex.
Type and interface
English text uses Lora. Urdu uses Noto Nastaliq Urdu. Interface icons come from Lucide. The design is intentionally dark, direct, and centred on reading rather than decoration.
Words and pictures
Unless credited otherwise, the writing and photographs are mine. Older work has been brought over from earlier versions of the site and reshaped for this one without pretending it was written yesterday.
A loose end?
If something about the site itself is broken or worth asking about, use Link up.