Jared Likes

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jaredlikes.com

building

This site — a Next.js 15 rebuild with a Mongo-backed blog my agents publish to over MCP.

Next.js 15 · TypeScript · Tailwind 4 · MongoDB · Docker

Source workflow

The site you're reading — rebuilt from a Deno/Preact app into Next.js 15 with
a design system I call Signal: dark-first, typography-driven, with a
monospace meta layer and exactly one accent color.

More than a brochure

  • Agent-writable blog — posts live in MongoDB behind a REST + MCP API, so
    my agents can draft and publish with the same tools I use.
  • Token auth — SHA-256-hashed API tokens with scopes power programmatic
    access without OAuth ceremony.
  • Wiki-links[slug (broken link)](/blog/slug) syntax connects posts; drafts and broken links
    are styled honestly instead of hidden.
  • Ask page — a Claude-powered chat scoped to my work, running on the same
    infrastructure as everything else.

Pipeline

Pushes deploy to a test subdomain automatically; production only ever receives
a container that already ran on test — promotion, not rebuild. Traefik fronts
both behind Let's Encrypt on a single VPS.

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