https://vrish.codes/ Vrishank — independent developer and AI instructor. Applied AI, product engineering, Linux, hardware experiments, and notes from the workbench. en Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://vrish.codes/journal/how-this-site-works/ https://vrish.codes/journal/how-this-site-works/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT <p>This site starts with a folder of text files and a small script that turns them into HTML. The public pages have no framework or database, and no application JavaScript to load.</p> <p>The whole build is one command:</p> <pre><code>npm run build</code></pre> <p>A few things it does that you might not notice:</p> <ul> <li>Supporting browsers can prerender internal links before you open them.</li> <li>It follows your system’s light or dark setting.</li> <li>Drafts stay out of the public build, RSS feed, and sitemap.</li> <li>Local images get their dimensions filled in at build time, so the page can reserve space before they load.</li> </ul> <h2 id="a-room-for-writing">A room for writing</h2> <p>I can edit the Markdown files directly, or open the local writing room:</p> <pre><code>npm run write</code></pre> <p>It has an editor, a preview, autosave, and a draft toggle. It also lets me edit the home page and site settings, add standalone pages, and paste images into an entry.</p> <p>The editor runs locally. The deployed site only contains the built public files.</p> <h2 id="a-small-publishing-check">A small publishing check</h2> <p>The build checks for unfinished template copy and missing local file links before it writes the public site. That catches mistakes like a placeholder email address or a link to an image I forgot to add.</p> <p>The output includes an RSS feed, a sitemap, search metadata, and a page for missing addresses. It can be served by a plain static web server.</p> <p>I like that I can follow the path from a sentence in a text file to the page in the browser. It’s a small enough system to keep changing without turning the site itself into the main project.</p>