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July

Thursday 20

The seventh blog

The seventh blog has gone live! I didn't dare to hope that this day would come, but a stint of bad (or not as great as usual) weather has left me with a lot of time for coding while my family wears out their phone batteries to the best of their abilities. ## The fixed and the missing While there was quite a lot of missing features a few days ago, there is now a working archive, tag cloud and even search(!). The latter was solved with [Orama](https://oramasearch.com/), formerly known as `Lyra`, and it does all the full-text searching client-side. It's all hooked up with a custom WebComponent and some clever index building with Astro. There will be a more complete writeup on it in the future, but for now you can check out the code over on GitHub. The link for that is at the [source page]
Friday 14

And just like that...

... I started on yet another rewrite. ## Stargazing I've had my eye on [Astro](https://astro.build) for a while now. One of the things that caught my eye was just how much it looked like [Svelte](https://svelte.dev). Consider the following examples: ````astro --- import BlogPost from "../components/BlogPost.astro"; const allBlogPosts = await fetch("https://blog.lofjard.se/api/blogposts/all", data => { return await data.json(); }); --- <div class="blog-list"> { allBlogPosts.map(item => ( <BlogPost item={item} /> ))} </div> <style> .blog-list { width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; } </style> ```` vs ````svelte <script> import BlogPost from "../components/BlogPost.svelte"; const allBlogPosts = await fetch("https://blog.lofjard.se/api/blogposts/all", data => { return await data.j

June

Sunday 11

Svelte-Blog 0.1 (alpha)

## New face The blog has gotten a face lift with some fresh new styling. In the last 8 years I've probaly redesigned it 4 times. It always ends with me not completing my design and/or getting bored with it. Even this design is not the one I spoke of in the last update. ## New tech Even though the design is new, the blog itself is the same one I wrote about last year. It's written in Svelte, and compiled to a static page. Instead of having my own API in Node.js it talks to the CouchDB database directly through its REST API. Authelia is setup to handle authentication and authorization to the admin area and database backend, ensuring write access to only those deemed worthy. ## Missing features There are currently a lot of things missing in this blog that were available before. They will g

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