Building a Lightweight, High-Performance Blog with Deno and Clean Architecture

How to build a fast personal website with Deno, Hono, Ports and Adapters architecture, and vanilla CSS.

Welcome to my personal website. After years of building frontend architectures for millions of users, I designed this site to be fast, simple, and reliable without frontend framework bloat.

The Philosophy: Zero Client-Side Frameworks

Modern web development has gotten heavy. For content-driven platforms and personal engineering journals, shipping megabytes of JavaScript just to render static markup is unnecessary overhead.

Here is what powers this site:

  • Runtime: Deno for secure TypeScript execution without a build pipeline.
  • HTTP Routing: Hono - lightweight web framework for request routing.
  • Templates: Eta for fast server-side rendering.
  • Styling: Semantic HTML5 and vanilla CSS with custom properties and zero client JavaScript libraries.

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger W. Dijkstra

What's Next?

I'll be writing about:

  1. Frontend Architecture at Scale: Design systems, state management, and microfrontends.
  2. UX Engineering & Craft: Bridging user research, typography, and frontend performance.
  3. Open Source & Tooling: Lessons learned building developer tools and indie applications.

Stay tuned, and feel free to connect on GitHub or LinkedIn.

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