My personal blog about web development stuff and my IRL stuff. No ads, no JavaScript required, pure shitpost 😻 100% open-source!

Design

I was looking for a bold, bright, fashionable design for my blog. No distrctions, straight to the point and content. Rich formatting, stylish typeface, innovative features. I took inspiration from Milos Bojkovic's "Blog post exploration" shot on Dribbble. I added my own touch to make it more personal and unique. Like the dark mode toggle which slowly fades the colors based on the time of the day or a precisely-animated back arrow in menu that sticks to the closing menu edge.

Remake in Svelte

Initially built with React v18 and Next.js v14 it was a slow mess that couldn't handle more than a few tens of requests per second. After migrating the project to SvelteKit exactly one year after release I managed to cut project size in half while keeping all existing features and adding new ones. I also migrated from MongoDB to PostgreSQL and Drizzle ORM. A few weeks later I added reactions to posts that use proof-of-work algorithm to prevent flooding. The pow-reaction library is a standalone open-source project that can be used by anyone for free!