Trace DeLange

Engineer

Blog ·

A solar system for a homepage

Stub post. Most personal sites are a list of links. This one is a top-down chart: each section is a planet, and its links are moons.

How it's built

  • An SVG chart for the orbits and bodies
  • A WebGL layer for the 30,000-dot belt
  • Markdown files, built into plain HTML pages like this one

The chart reads the site's own navigation list, so without JavaScript you still get the links.

Code looks like this:

const speed = K / r ** 1.5; // Kepler: outer bodies drift slower

Blog ·

Hello, world

Stub post. This is where the first real post goes.

It can use emphasis, bold, links and lists:

  1. Write a Markdown file in content/blog/
  2. Run npm run build
  3. It shows up as a moon on the Blog planet

Reading in 2026

Want to read 3

  • Look to WindwardIain M. Banks
  • Surface DetailIain M. Banks
  • The Hydrogen SonataIain M. Banks

Reading 1

  • ExcessionIain M. Banks

Read 3

  • Consider PhlebasIain M. Banks
  • The Player of GamesIain M. Banks
  • Use of WeaponsIain M. Banks

Bio

Stub bio. Two or three sentences on who you are, what you build and where you're based.

Now

  • Building this site
  • Reading Excession

Updated 16 October 2026

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