Chirps

Rewatching one of the best tech talks of all time by Rich Harris

I've had fun over the last 3-4 days rebuilding this site!

Here's the stack:

• Django and Django Admin backed by sqlite for all data entry.
• A small script to copy data from the sqlite database into a JSON file used by the frontend.
• Svelte for the frontend. Sveltekit for static site generation. Vite is ever present under the hood.
• rsync to copy the static site directory to a Digital Ocean droplet
• Nginx running on the droplet to serve the site
• Cloudflare to handle HTTPS and caching

I've taken Django Admin's capability for granted for more than a decade, but I got an opportunity to appreciate this time. I tried to vibe-code the admin backend. But it came nowhere close to Django's quality. So I stuck with Django.

As a fairly new Svelte user, I was pleasantly surprised by how well SvelteKit works. Navigating between pages is a breeze since SvelteKit intelligently prefetches data and components in the background.

Since the workflow is now smooth enough, I'm tempted to chirp more!

Now listening to In Pieces by Linkin Park. Features one of the most underrated guitar solos imo.

Listening to Read My Mind by The Killers again because I lost track when chirping about it last time.

I've mostly been an indoor enthusiast for the past few years, so here's a view of my neighbourhood from a nearby hill to balance things out. (Taken before the authorities closed access to it)