Theriyala, But Moving

A personal blog with a little bit of character.

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What is this?

This is the source code for my personal blogsite, and I built it because I got tired of platforms that change their terms of service every Tuesday. I post a lot on Twitter, and I realized late that you don't actually own anything you post there, so everything I write online, this website will have a copy of it all, and it's just HTML and CSS compiled into static pages using a custom Go static site generator... just my words on my domain under my control.

Structure

The repository structure is pretty straightforward, and it's organized into a few key directories that make sense when you look at them.

• content/ : The actual writing (Markdown files)
• templates/ : How pages get assembled (Go HTML templates)
• static/ : CSS, fonts, images, the usual stuff
• public/ : The compiled output, that we deploy to static servers like gtihub pages and yadayada

How to Build

The site uses a custom static site generator written in Go, and it's intentionally simple, and if you can't read the code and understand it in one sitting, I've failed.

Build Commands

make setup      # Install dependencies (Go, WebP, ImageMagick)
make generate   # Compile the site to /public directory
make serve      # Dev server with hot reload (port 5174)
make optimize   # Optimize images to WebP
make deploy     # Build and deploy to GitHub Pages
make clean      # Remove generated files

Manual Build

go run generate.go  # Build site
go run serve.go     # Dev server

Tech Stack

• Generator: Custom Go static site generator
• Markdown: Goldmark for parsing
• Templates: Go's html/template package
• Font: Native OS System Fonts & Courier New (Zero external requests)
• Styling: Pure vanilla CSS, no frameworks
• Deployment: Simple static directory, GitHub Pages target

Design

• Theme: Matte dark palette (background #1e1e1e, text #d4d4d4)
• Accent: Structural styling. Thick borders and block layouts instead of colorful highlights.
• Typography: Native System UI fonts for prose, Monospace for metadata to reinforce a terminal feel.
• Layout: Brutalist, high-contrast tree-style timelines, reminiscent of early classic Macintosh / DOS UIs.
• Responsive: Mobile-first density tuning to ensure maximal scan-ability on small screens.