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This is my personal site. I use it as a portfolio, a blog, and a place to track what I am building. The guestbook is for anyone who wants to leave a note. The dashboard pulls live data from WakaTime and GitHub so visitors can see what I have been working on recently.

The site has gone through three versions. The first was a static site built with Hugo. It was fast to build and deploy, but the templating system made adding interactive features tedious. I rewrote it in pure React when I needed a comments section and a few dynamic pages. That worked for a while, but routing and SEO became harder to manage as the site grew. I moved to Next.js for the current version to get file-based routing, server-side rendering, and API routes in one framework.

The content is mostly MDX. Blog posts are Markdown files with React components embedded where needed, like code blocks with copy buttons and screenshot carousels. The guestbook and comments sections use a PostgreSQL database via Prisma, deployed on a managed Postgres instance.

The blog covers things I had to figure out myself and could not find a clear answer for elsewhere. Posts like the Django deployment guide on cPanel or the pymysql setup exist because I spent hours on those problems and wanted to leave a record. Most of my open-source work follows the same pattern: I run into a missing tool, build it, and publish it. django-nepkit came from working on Nepali business applications that needed BS date fields and local phone validation. djinit came from setting up the same Django project structure repeatedly. lapctl came from managing GPU switching and battery profiles through a collection of scattered shell scripts that kept breaking.

The design is intentionally minimal. No animations, no hero gradients, no floating cards, no carousels on the homepage. Every section uses a flat border system with no shadows. The goal was a site that loads fast, reads clearly in both light and dark mode, and gets out of the way of the actual content.