aaron wrightcognitive scientist, photographer, artist

software & platforms

a few of the tools that keep these projects going

This site brings together writing, photography, and scientific work. Some tools run the website; others keep the work moving before it reaches a page.

Next.js, React & Tailwind

The pages, interactive pieces, and shared visual language of the site.

Used by this site

Sanity

The content studio and media library used by existing CMS-backed content, alongside locally published journal entries.

Integrated in the application

Vercel

The site's hosting and deployment platform, and the registrar for aaronwriight.com.

Hosting platform and domain

Resend

Email subscriptions and the Scope for Imagination newsletter. Creative updates have their own list, separate from booking inquiries.

Integrated; each list needs server configuration

Cormorant Garamond

The typeface: a free Garamond by Christian Thalmann (SIL Open Font License), standing in for Perpetua. It is served from this site, so pages make no requests to Google.

Self-hosted with next/font

AWS Terrain Tiles

Open elevation data (USGS 3DEP, SRTM and others) behind the faint contour map of the Adirondack High Peaks in the site's background.

Generated offline into a small data file

Pic-Time

Photography gallery hosting and delivery. The photography pages link to my Pic-Time gallery page, where clients can continue to their photographs and sign in.

Gallery-page link; access managed by Pic-Time

Claude Code & Codex

AI coding assistants used to design and build the site: its pages, the contour background, the design system, and the publishing and mailing-list tools.

Development tools; not part of the running site

GitHub & local publishing tools

Versioned site code and reviewed public outputs. Python tools prepare journal entries, photography collections, and plot metadata before release.

Repository publishing workflow

Quarto, R & the tidyverse

Tools for data visualization in the independent TidyTuesday project. Selected plots can be handed off to this site's cognitive-science section.

Separate source project

Maintained from the site and project repositories. A listed integration describes its role; availability depends on its configuration.

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