blog

essays, notes, and the occasional rant.

── cat ~/blog/ascii-background-cursor.md ──

# An ASCII background that follows your cursor

2026-06-13 · meta, webdev

The flow-field background now lights up under the pointer and drifts as you scroll, layered onto the existing animation without touching its pure core.

── cat ~/blog/github-project-stats.md ──

# Live GitHub stats on the projects page

2026-06-13 · meta, webdev

Stars and last-commit recency on every project, fetched at build time into a committed JSON cache and shown in both the browser and the curl view.

── cat ~/blog/og-image-generation.md ──

# OG images for every post and project

2026-05-28 · meta, webdev

Per-entry OpenGraph PNGs rendered at build time with Satori and resvg, a small Seo component, and a broken image in the very first post.

── cat ~/blog/man-page-and-blog-filter.md ──

# `man lsalik` and a blog filter

2026-05-14 · meta, webdev, curl

A dual-rendered manual page at /man, and a client-side search bar with tag chips on the blog index.

── cat ~/blog/uses-page-and-shortcuts.md ──

# A /uses page and vim-style shortcuts

2026-05-10 · meta, webdev, curl

Two items off the future-plans list: a /uses page that doubles as a neofetch when curled, and a tiny chord-driven keyboard navigation island.

── cat ~/blog/curl-overhaul.md ──

# Overhauling the curl experience

2026-04-16 · meta, curl, webdev

Box-drawing layout, a richer color palette, resume support, and a randomized logo: a full refresh of what you see when you curl lsalik.dev.

── cat ~/blog/production-security-pass.md ──

# A production security pass

2026-04-16 · security, meta, webdev

Self-hosted fonts, anchored UA matching, ANSI stripping, hashed CSP, and a few smaller hardening items before shipping.

── cat ~/blog/six-small-features.md ──

# Six new (small) features

2026-04-14 · meta, webdev

New palettes, blog reading times, RSS feed and more.

── cat ~/blog/hello-world.md ──

# Hello, World!

2026-04-09 · meta, webdev

First post on lsalik.dev for testing purposes.