Rebuilding this site

This site used to be a single column of static text. Everything on it was true when I typed it and slowly stopped being true afterwards — "1k+ weekly downloads" was a string in a TSX file, not a number from anywhere.

So I rewired it. The numbers now come from the places that actually know them.

The numbers fetch themselves

Download counts come from the npm registry API, star counts from the GitHub API. Both are wrapped so that a failed request returns null rather than throwing, and every badge falls back to static copy when that happens. A rate limit should make the site slightly less impressive, not break it.

Everything revalidates once a day:

const response = await fetch(url, { next: { revalidate: 86400 } });

npm caps a download range at eighteen months, so longer histories get stitched together from consecutive windows before being condensed into monthly buckets for the charts.

Case studies instead of a link list

A list of project names tells you nothing. Each project now has its own page with the problem it solves, what is actually inside it, and the live numbers attached — and those pages generate their own social cards, so a link posted anywhere shows the project rather than a bare URL.

Details that took longer than they should have

The theme resolves before first paint via a small inline script, so there is no white flash on a dark-mode machine. The signature at the bottom of the home page is the same single-path SVG the page transition draws, now drawn on again when it scrolls into view. Anyone with prefers-reduced-motion set gets none of that.

There is a command palette on ⌘K and a terminal on ~. Neither is necessary.

What is next

More writing here, probably about the Rust side of Recso.