How this site is built.

I moved this site off a hosting platform onto my own server and rebuilt it the way I build Laayo: Go behind, Next.js in front, nothing I cannot debug.

Things to try

• X

  X-ray mode: see which API call and cache drew each part of the page.

• ⌘K

  Find anything, or type a question to ask about my work.

• ssh sakshyambaral.com.np -p 2222

  This whole site, in your terminal.

• Play an order

  Watch one pretend order travel through Laayo's backend.

• Status

  Live uptime, speed and deploys for this site.

• Guestbook

  Sign in with GitHub and leave a note.

• My setup

  The desk, with hotspots on every piece of gear.

Speed from real visitors

75th percentile over the last 28 days, measured in visitors' browsers.

The stack

Pages

Next.js 14 with React Server Components. Content is fetched on the server and cached, then refreshed the moment I publish.

API

A small Go service with SQLite in WAL mode. It serves content, the contact form, analytics and the admin.

Admin

A private studio on its own subdomain. Passkey sign-in only, no passwords. Every change is written to an audit log.

Hosting

My own Linux server behind Nginx, with Let's Encrypt certificates and Cloudflare DNS. No platform in between.

CV

The CV page and the PDF come from the same data. When I edit my experience, headless Chromium prints a fresh PDF.

Analytics

First-party and cookie-free. IP addresses are cut to the network before storage; the network owner comes from a public dataset, not a tracking company.

Writing

Markdown stored in the database, rendered on the server, sanitised, with code highlighting and diagrams drawn as React SVG.

Ask

Questions are matched against my own posts with a small BM25 search in Go, and Claude writes a short answer that may only use those passages and must cite them.

Terminal

The SSH version is a Go program built on Bubble Tea. It reads the same public API, has no shell behind it, and limits every session.

Status

The API checks the site and itself every minute. Uptime, latency and deploys are on the status page.

Source

Private. Happy to walk through it in an interview.

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