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title, summary
| title | summary |
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| This website | My own site built with Node.js and Express, maintained through a small admin interface, shipped as a Docker container. |
I wanted a site I fully understand and can maintain without an off-the-shelf 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. They're edited through admin pages that are only reachable from my home network. Changes go live right away, 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.