
I got tired or rewriting the same blog backend so I created a solution
Inkwell v0.1 — A lightweight, binary-compiled blog engine for developers who just want to ship. The Problem A client asked me to build a blog site. Cool. Built it. Another client asked. Same thing. Built it again. Third time? I caught myself writing the same create/post/delete/admin logic from scratch. Again. I thought: There has to be a better way. The Search I went looking. Surely someone has solved this. Found some stuff on GitHub. Looked promising until I dug deeper. Good features? Locked behind paywalls. Blog engine shouldn't be paid for. So I decided to build one myself. The Build I needed something: Compiled to binary — runs anywhere, no dependencies Fast — no slow interpreted stuff No bloat — does one thing well Started with Go. Made sense. But I was still learning and progress was slow. Switched to Dart. Things clicked. Built the core logic. Struggled through some parts. Learned a ton. Kept going. Introducing Inkwell v0.1 It's basic. It's buggy. It works. curl -sSL "https://gi
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