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aaddrick
A corner of the web for whatever rabbit hole has my attention this week.
whoami
I'm Aaddrick Williams, and this is my corner of the web. It's where I write up whatever rabbit hole has my attention this week. Some of it sticks. Most of it gets abandoned for the next shiny thing, which is sort of the point.
The posts are standalone pages built from a small set of components. No comments, no fuss.
colophon
The site runs on Laravel 12 with a hand-rolled CSS design system — a late-90s IRC/DOS homage rendered in warm paper and ink, with a light/dark toggle in the channel rail. Each article's Blade view is the single source of truth, with the metadata and the body living in one file. There's no CMS, no admin panel, and no auth. Just code.
Search runs server-side on PostgreSQL using pg_trgm trigram similarity, so it's typo-tolerant. A misspelling or a partial word will still surface the right post.
Traffic stats come from a tiny first-party beacon captured in our own server logs. It's cookieless, with no third-party analytics, and nothing is stored about you beyond an aggregate page count.