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title: This website
summary: My own site built with Node.js and Express, content as Markdown files, shipped as a Docker container.
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I wanted a site I fully understand and can maintain without a CMS, so it's deliberately simple.

## How it's built

- **Server:** Node.js with Express, pages are rendered on the server with Nunjucks.
- **Content:** Every project is a folder with a YAML file for metadata and one Markdown file per language. New entries reach the server with `git pull` and are picked up without a restart.
- **Images:** sharp resizes them on first request and keeps the results in a cache.
- **Hosting:** A Docker container managed in Dockge, with Nginx Proxy Manager in front for HTTPS. The container runs with a read-only filesystem and no extra privileges.

## What I paid attention to

The site sets no cookies and doesn't load anything from third-party servers, fonts included. Everything still works without JavaScript, the animations are an extra and respect the system setting for reduced motion.

The background on the homepage is a small WebGL shader that lets the stripes of the genderfluid flag flow into each other.