https://www.tryshadow.xyz/
what is sorcery is this?

building degencast.wtf /degencast . ex-bitmain, binance

Chiang Mai, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai, Thailand

would love to know what is going on under the hood

Best guess from the site: "Edit contracts in your Shadow fork"

Light weight fork that understands annotations in the contract that gets emitted only to shadow because shadow evm is the only thing that will process them, Mainnet treats them as a noop.

You could probably just have the functions with empty bodies