Sigao Li — personal MCP server

sigaoli.com

Personal website of Sigao Li — AI Product Manager · Spatial Data Scientist. From maps to models, and the products in between.

Bilingual (English at /, 中文 at /zh/), built with Astro + Tailwind CSS v4 + GSAP, deployed to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions. Launched 2026-06-11, replacing the previous Jekyll (academicpages) site.

Highlights

• Generative canvas effects on a map motif — an interactive particle field (home), contour terrain (work), a "river as timeline" with a flow field (CV), and a geo-network arc map (photography); all vanilla canvas/SVG, tuned to 60fps with reduced-motion and mobile fallbacks
• Dotted world map — land sampled from Natural Earth, with 79 GPS-extracted photo footprints across 6 countries; click a marker to open that country's gallery
• Zoe, the digital doorcat — Sigao's cat (驺虞) lives in the corner of every page as a set of AI-generated, chroma-keyed VP9-alpha video clips pinned to shared anchor poses, driven by a state machine: she dozes off when ignored, reacts to page switches, listens while you type, "types back" while the assistant streams, and keeps a few easter eggs (production handbook in docs/)
• Built-in AI layer — a floating chat assistant (fronted by Zoe) on every page — it suggests the single most relevant page as you ask, and greets a returning visitor by name (stored only in their own browser, opt-in) — plus a personal MCP server, both fed by a build-time knowledge pack generated from the same sources as the pages (see below)
• Machine-readable by design — /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /resume.json (JSON Resume), /knowledge.json, /.well-known/mcp.json, JSON-LD, and a robots.txt that explicitly welcomes AI crawlers
• Photographs file themselves — drop the full-resolution originals into _inbox/ and commit. A pre-commit hook works out the country from the coordinates against Natural Earth polygons, archives the originals outside git, derives 2560px masters with the EXIF stripped, asks a vision model for the bilingual caption, and registers everything in photos.json — the map, the counts and the assistant's knowledge all follow from there
• Either language pulls the other along — edit the Chinese or the English and commit. The hook works out which side moved and asks a model whether the edit actually changed what the other side must say. Polishing one language leaves the other alone; a changed fact is revised rather than rewritten, so hand-picked wording survives. Editing both in one commit counts as already handled by hand
• Lighthouse (mobile): 96–100 across all categories; zero cookies, no paid services, and a plain-language privacy notice at /privacy

Commands

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.