Ionut Maxim

How this site is put together.

The work of running a small personal site is the kind of thing where what you choose to use says as much as what you build with it. So a few notes, in case you are curious or building something similar.

Stack

  • Framework — React 18, TypeScript, Vite 6.
  • Styling — Tailwind v4. A semantic-token system on top — every brand color is a CSS variable; light and dark mode flip the values, not the markup.
  • Animation — motion/react. Used sparingly — fades, small translates, no parallax.
  • Icons — lucide-react.
  • Routing — A small home-grown History API switch — no React Router. Every page is a lazy chunk.
  • Hosting — Vercel. CDN, edge caching, SPA rewrites.
  • Worksheets — PDFs generated programmatically via fpdf2, with the DejaVu Unicode TTF for the logo glyph.
  • Video card — YouTube IFrame Player API on the /intro page, with a custom progress bar wired to getCurrentTime / getDuration.

What this site does not do

  • No analytics. The site does not track visitors. There is no first-party or third-party analytics script anywhere.
  • No cookie banner — because there are no cookies to ask about.
  • No remarketing pixels, no Facebook fbq, no Google gtag.
  • The YouTube embeds use the youtube-nocookie.com domain so nothing is stored until the visitor actually presses play.
  • localStorage is used only for: theme choice, the conversation page state, the intro-page symptom selection, and the saved-article bookmarks. All client-side, never sent anywhere.
  • No newsletter ESP wired in yet — when one lands, it will be one of Buttondown, Resend, or EmailOctopus and will be named here explicitly.

For AI agents and researchers

  • /llms.txt — the short sitemap-style index.
  • /llms-full.txt — the comprehensive flat-text dump.
  • /feed.xml — RSS for the Insights articles.
  • /sitemap.xml — full URL inventory.
  • Every page emits Open Graph + Twitter Card metadata. Detail pages emit Article and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD. The Facts page emits FAQPage JSON-LD.

Built quietly, hosted cheaply, intended to outlast the trends it does not chase.

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