Ryan Lindsey

ryanlindsey.me

The code behind ryanlindsey.me: an Astro site on the Cloudflare developer platform, plus a second Worker serving a remote MCP server at mcp.ryanlindsey.me. One repository, two deployed Workers, one shared set of D1, KV, R2, Queues and Analytics Engine resources.

The site is built so that a person and an agent read the same corpus through different doors.

Source-visible so you can read how it is built. There is no LICENSE file, and the absence is deliberate rather than an oversight: no license means all rights reserved, so nothing here is licensed for reuse.

Deploys run on Workers Builds from main, and CI has no deploy step. CLAUDE.md carries the working notes, including the commands, the traps worth knowing before editing, and the reasoning behind the parts that look strange.

If you are an agent

Four entrypoints, stable by contract:

This file does not list the rest, and the omission is the part worth reading. Every endpoint this site advertises lives in one list, ADVERTISED_SURFACE in src/lib/discovery/surface.ts, published as both the API catalog and the ARD manifest and checked by tests/discovery-catalog.test.ts. A table here would be a second copy, living outside the test suite, and it would drift the first time an endpoint moved. Fetch the catalog rather than trusting this file.

One thing is missing from that list on purpose. /fit and everything beneath it are unlisted by requirement, and a catalog is a published list of the paths its author finds interesting, so listing one there would un-list it.

How it fits together

flowchart TB  person(["person"])  agent(["agent"])
  subgraph site["site Worker (ryanlindsey.me)"]    S["pages, posts, case studies, résumé<br>markdown variants, llms.txt, feeds<br>well-known catalogs<br>chat page and the form surfaces"]  end
  subgraph mcpw["MCP Worker (mcp.ryanlindsey.me)"]    G{"grant resolved<br>here, and only here"}    T["/mcp, the chat stream,<br>the fit engine"]    R[["rate limiter<br>Durable Object"]]    G --> T    T -->|every tool call spends budget| R  end
  P[("R2_PRIVATE")]
  person --> site  agent --> site  agent --> mcpw  site -->|service binding| mcpw  mcpw -->|reads published documents| site  T -. "private-docs.ts, the only reader" .-> P

The split into two Workers is not cosmetic. An ai binding in the site's config makes astro build open a remote proxy session that credential-free CI cannot authenticate, so inference lives on the second Worker and the site reaches it over a service binding. Each Worker names the other, and the cycle is deliberate and legal, because a service binding resolves when it is called rather than when the Worker is defined.

The drawing is deliberately incomplete. It carries the structure and leaves out the rest: which storage each Worker touches, which models it calls, the queue consumer, the crons. The site publishes its own drawing of the deployed inventory on /ops, over the one description of this architecture the repository keeps, src/lib/architecture.ts. That page also reports what the system has done lately and what it cost, read at request time rather than asserted here.

What this repo guarantees

Four claims, each paired with the file that proves it rather than with an assurance.

Five minutes in this codebase

Four files, in reading order. They explain the rest.

1. src/lib/discovery/surface.ts, every endpoint this site advertises, in one list, carrying the reason it is one list and not two.
2. src/lib/tier/grant.ts, the only place a token is verified. The site Worker holds no copy: it treats the token as an opaque string and asks over the service binding, so the boundary has one implementation rather than two that agree.
3. tests/workers.ts, why the suite boots real Workers inside workerd, and what it refuses to reach.
4. src/components/ArchitectureDiagram.astro, for its header rather than its output. That header records that two claims in its own first draft were false, names them, and says what the mistake taught. It is a fair sample of how the rest of this repository is commented.

Releases

release-please watches main and keeps a release pull request open with the next version and its changelog. Merging that pull request tags the release and publishes it.

Pull requests are squash-merged, so the pull request title is the commit subject release-please reads. A title without a recognized type(scope): summary prefix is skipped silently: no version bump, no changelog entry. feat is a minor bump, fix and perf are patches, and type!: or a BREAKING CHANGE: footer is a major. The full set of types lives in release-please-config.json under changelog-sections.