Show HN: Minilith – A zero-dependency CMS stored inside a PNG filehttps://blog.minilith.site
I enjoy the constraints of retro development. While building games in PICO-8, I took a interest in the way it packs data into the virtual cartridge. I dug into steganography and started thinking: could I apply the same logic to a content management system? Do we really need all the bloat just to host a micro blog? Minilith is a database free CMS where the entire state (posts, pages, and settings) are compressed and stored directly in the pixels of a 256xd256 PNG file. Minilith has zero dependencies. There is no Node, no bundlers, and no external DBs. It relies entirely on browser APIs to comp…