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Part 6, the last in the series: the black, white and highlighter-green look, the small touches that give the site its character, what free hosting forced me to change, and an honest list of what is still missing.
Part 5: how the private side of this blog is locked to a single person, why the check happens in three places, what gets recorded when a stranger tries to sign in, and how images go straight from the browser to storage.
Part 4: how publishing works on this blog. Cached pages that refresh the moment I press Publish, edits to a live post that wait as a draft, scheduling without a cron job, and search that never touches the database.
Part 3: how a post is stored and rendered. Tiptap JSON in one Postgres column, one extension list shared by the editor and the server, code highlighted twice, and the metadata search engines need.
Part 2: how the editor behind this blog works. The plus menu, the slash menu, a toolbar that appears on selected text, captioned images and videos, and the small problems that took the longest.
Part 1 of a series on how this blog works: why I wanted my own place to write, what I borrowed from Medium, the stack behind it, and how the project is laid out.