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Jack Bendtsen's Personal Website

If you're reading this, you've arrived at the source code for the website itself! For more information, including why I developed this site the way I did, check out my blog!

Technical Features

• Handwritten HTTP server loop, handwritten data structures
• Thread per connection for sending and receiving, all processing done on main thread
• Custom Markdown renderer
• Doesn't follow the entire spec, but includes extra features not in the spec
• Custom text/code editor widget, based on HTML canvas
• Re-implements conventional editing features, eg.
• Arrow movement (crtl+arrow for word movement, shift+arrow to select text)
• Mouse input
• Copy/cut/paste
• DPI aware
• Infinitely scrollable
• Re-positions and redraws the canvas inside the outer div every 400px scrolled
• Memory-only, read-only filesystem
• All files are cached, the server has to be launched again after every change
• Download project as an uncompressed ZIP
• Compiles pointers to existing files in memory with ZIP header data into a list of buffers, which are written in one go with sendmsg()