<p>After postponing my personal website for many years,
I had a long week off with not much to do.
Thus worked on this very website.
Of course I had some base requirements for my site.</p>
<h2>Gotta go FAST!</h2>
<p>Sites these times have no execute to be slow.
There are many free and easy solutions to make fast websites,
even with full eCommerce capabilities!</p>
<p>The speed accomplished by the React based next.js,
which is pre-rendering the content and serves it efficiently and quick to the end user.</p>
<h2>Mobile first!</h2>
<p>Nowadays everyone uses their phones for anything.
And if you site doesn't make it easy for mobile users,
you might as well not have a website.</p>
<h2>Maintainability</h2>
<p>Because I have lots of hobbies,
I don't want to spend ALL my time writing a new function for my site.
So I wanted it to be easy to add and update pages and features. </p>
<h2>Stack</h2>
<p>As stated before I used React and Next.JS, which allows me to pre-render the pages.
I used markdown for all the content of the site.
I host it for free on the reliable hosting of Vercel.</p>


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<p>I love Minecraft, the simplicity and mindless playing allows me to relax.
But I wanted to program it, and decided to checkout how easy it is to write a mod for it.</p>
<p>So I write a super simple mod which thought me about server <code>&#x3C;-></code> client communication.
I knew a little Java, so it was a weekend me warming up my Java skills and learning the mod API called Forge.</p>


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