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title, author, date, tags, excerpt
| title | author | date | tags | excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Website v5.0.0 | Sir Blob | 2026-07-10 | meta, svelte, sveltekit | Why I ripped out the old blog redirect and wrote a small markdown blog engine instead. |
For a while, clicking Blog in the navbar just sent you off to a separate site. It worked, but it never felt like part of this project.
Why bother
A few reasons pushed me to build this in:
- One theme, one codebase, one deploy
- Full control over the reading experience
- An excuse to write a tiny markdown renderer from scratch
How it works
Every post is a plain markdown file that lives in the blogs directory at the root of the project. Each file starts with a small frontmatter block containing a title, a date, a comma separated list of tags, and a short excerpt. Everything after that block is just markdown.
Headings, inline code, links, lists, blockquotes, and fenced code blocks all render into the same terminal styled theme as the rest of the site.
function greet(name) {
return `Hello, ${name}!`;
}
Thanks for reading the first post.