My Personal Site

The site you're looking at right now. A Go web server that embeds its templates and static assets at compile time but loads blog posts, project pages, and resume content from a separate git repository at runtime. It runs in a Kubernetes homelab cluster as a single static binary on top of distroless.

Content and application code live in separate repositories. The server clones the content repo on startup, then pulls it on a background ticker. When new content arrives, it parses every markdown file, builds a new ContentStore, and swaps it in via atomic.Pointer so readers never see a partial update.

Features

• Content hot-loading: Push markdown to the content repo, and the site picks it up within minutes with no rebuild or restart
• Atomic content swaps: An atomic.Pointer[ContentStore] ensures readers always see a consistent snapshot, even mid-refresh
• Embedded assets: Templates and static files are baked into the binary via embed.FS, keeping the container image small and dependency-free
• Atom feed: A templated /feed.xml endpoint serves an Atom feed of all blog posts
• Security headers and caching middleware: Static assets get immutable cache headers; all responses include X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, and Referrer-Policy
• Self-hosted variable fonts: Syne, Source Serif 4, and JetBrains Mono served as single woff2 files instead of per-subset splits from Google Fonts

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