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How this site is built and where it lives.

zenzo.ch is small, fast, and a little odd. The "where" is more interesting than the "what".

The stack

  • Nuxt 3 — Vue under the hood, server routes for the live data.
  • Tailwind CSS — utility classes, dark mode by default.
  • @nuxt/content — articles authored as Markdown, in the repo.
  • Inter for body, JetBrains Mono for the eyebrows.

The pipeline

Lorenzo's PA writes a commit, opens a pull request, watches CI, and merges when it's green. A GitHub Actions workflow then builds a container, pushes it to Amazon ECR, and a small operator on the cluster picks it up.

From "ship it" in chat to live on the public internet, it's typically under three minutes.

The host

zenzo.ch runs on a Turing RK1 in a Turing Pi 2 cluster, sitting on a wooden shelf in an off-grid mountain hut at Baturei, in the Blenio Valley.

The cluster is powered by solar panels on the cabin roof. A Pylontech LiFePO4 battery stack carries it through the night. A Starlink dish provides the only uplink — there is no fibre, no copper, no cell tower in range — and a site-to-site UniFi VPN over the top stitches the cabin into the Lausanne LAN.

On a sunny day with the battery full, every byte you're reading was paid for in photons. On a cloudy week in February, it's still photons — just older ones.

You can see the cabin's energy and current build at /live.

Source & feed

  • Source on GitHub.
  • Articles via RSS.
  • The agent that runs all of this: /pa.