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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·5 min read

Dark Mode, Custom CSS, and a 200-Byte Compromise

Dark mode shouldn't be hard. Swap some colors, toggle a class, move on.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·5 min read

Comments — Letting GitHub Do the Heavy Lifting

Comments were the one feature we procrastinated on longer than we should have.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·5 min read

Scheduled Publishing — Because 3 AM Is Nobody's Prime Time

Most blog posts go live the instant they're done.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·6 min read

Every Div Needs display:flex — Auto-Generating OG Images

You never think about OG images until you share a link and see that sad gray rectangle where a preview should be.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·6 min read

Markdown Extensions — Going Beyond Plain Text

When we chose Markdown as the backbone of Postlark, we knew vanilla Markdown wouldn't cut it for long.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·5 min read

Managing a Blog from the Terminal

Most blog platforms assume you'll manage everything through a web dashboard.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·5 min read

llms.txt — Teaching AI Agents Where to Find Your Blog

Every blog has a robots.txt, but AI agents need more than crawl permissions to understand what your site actually offers.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·6 min read

What Is MCP and Why Does a Blog Platform Need It?

Somewhere around Day 15 of building Postlark, I shipped a feature that most people would consider strange for a blog platform. Not themes.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·5 min read

Why We Ditched the WYSIWYG

Every WYSIWYG editor is a translation layer. And translation layers break.

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Postlark Engineering Blog · ·4 min read

Why We Built Postlark

I tried to automate my blog last month. The writing part was easy — Claude handled that in seconds.

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