making things

Making things is seriously the best. I want to create anything and everything. I love drawing, writing, composing music, and programming. I'm not that great at any of them though (lol).

Since I'm here, let me tell you a bit about how I made this website. I wrote the web server myself. The server monitors a directory where I save my posts as HTML files. When someone requests a webpage, it renders it with a template engine and sends it. I extract the date with a regular expression and sort by that.

Comments are saved in a simple in-memory database. To increase the value of comments, I decided to implement a cooldown. So far, no one has commented though. Because no one knows about this place. But, eventually, these comments aren't necessarily just for me to read. I'll disappear. But the website will remain (for a while, probably).

I don't really need authentication. Just in case, I added a simple moderation function, but this is based on a super simple JWT implementation. Because there's only one account (me, sunset23).

The runtime is ".NET" on Linux. Thanks for reading, good night!