kennethreitz
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Server no longer makes HTTP requests during markdown rendering. Bare URLs render as placeholders with fallback links, and JS fetches oEmbed data asynchronously via a new /api/oembed proxy endpoint. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
kennethreitz.org
Kenneth Reitz's personal website and digital garden. A living exploration of how technology can serve human consciousness rather than exploit it.
Built with Responder, powered by markdown content, deployed on Fly.io.
Quick Start
# Install dependencies
uv sync
# Run development server
uv run python engine.py
The site will be available at http://localhost:8000.
Docker
docker compose up
Architecture
This is a single-file Responder application (engine.py) serving markdown content from data/.
kennethreitz.org/
├── engine.py # The whole application
├── data/ # All content (markdown)
│ ├── essays/ # 250+ essays (2008-2026)
│ ├── software/ # Project pages
│ ├── themes/ # Thematic collections
│ ├── artificial-intelligence/
│ ├── poetry/
│ ├── photography/
│ ├── music/
│ └── *.md # Standalone pages
├── tuftecms/
│ ├── templates/ # Jinja2 templates
│ ├── static/ # CSS, fonts, images
│ ├── core/ # Cache, markdown rendering
│ └── utils/ # Content helpers, SVG icons
├── Dockerfile
├── fly.toml # Fly.io deployment config
└── pyproject.toml
URL paths mirror the filesystem: data/essays/2025-08-26-example.md → /essays/2025-08-26-example
Features
- Tufte-style sidenotes — margin commentary without disrupting flow.
- Full-site search — cached index built at startup, server-side autocomplete.
- Content indexes — automatic extraction of sidenotes, quotes, outlines, connections, terms, themes.
- Legacy URL redirects — intelligent matching for old URL patterns (301 permanent).
- Bot detection — logs scraper activity with User-Agent identification.
- Structured logging — request-scoped context (ID, method, path, client IP) on every log line.
- PDF generation — server-side via WeasyPrint.
- Generated SVG icons — unique algorithmic icons for every piece of content.
- RSS feed — at
/feed.xml. - Knowledge graph — interactive D3 visualization of content connections.
- Dark mode — system-preference and manual toggle.
API Endpoints
GET /api/search?q=query # Full-site search with scoring
GET /api/search/autocomplete?q=q # Title-based autocomplete (8 results)
GET /api/blog # Essay listing
GET /api/themes # Theme listing with icons
GET /api/directory-tree # Site directory structure
GET /api/icon/<path> # Generated SVG icon
GET /api/cache-stats # Cache performance metrics
Deployment
Deployed on Fly.io with 2 shared CPUs, 2GB RAM, 2 uvicorn workers.
fly deploy
Content
The data/ directory contains 15+ years of writing — essays, software documentation, poetry, photography, AI explorations, and personal pages. Content is plain markdown with optional YAML frontmatter and Tufte-style HTML sidenotes.
License
MIT