Quire Ink: one process, two SQLite files, and an AI agent that can run your blog

Last month I moved my blog off a platform and onto a rented server, and instead of installing WordPress I finished something I had been building for it: Quire Ink , a blog engine that is one process and two SQLite files. No database server, no build pipeline, no cloud account anywhere in the path. bun src/index.ts That line is the whole deployment. Point nginx at the port and you have a blog. The part readers notice Opening a post costs about 114 KB , first visit, nothing cached. Of that, 67 KB is fonts I host myself and the JavaScript is 3.6 to 7.8 KB , written by hand. Third-party requests: zero . No CDN, no font host, no tracker. The numbers hold because the build enforces them. Every bundle has a size cap and the build fails if a feature crosses it, so nothing can quietly start costing every reader a little more forever. And the reading page is where most of the work went: Six palettes in light and dark, and four reading typefaces , all switchable by the reader, not just the owner. Fonts ship with Vietnamese and Central European accents included. Book mode : a fullscreen two-column reader on paper, with a drop cap and a page count. Not a filter over the page, a second typography. A five-ink highlighter . Write ==text== and it renders as an SVG stroke with chisel ends that breaks per line, pigments measured off a photograph of a real pen box. Readers can also keep their own highlights. 1.4 KB, and zero if unused. Math is MathML , drawn by the browser's own layout engine. No script, no stylesheet, no font file, so a post with a formula costs the reader nothing over one without. Code is highlighted on the server , 21 languages, so no highlighter ships to the browser. A fence that names no language gets a timid guess, so program output stays plain. Search answers as you type , a contents rail follows the post, and related posts, reading time and a progress bar are all there. The progress bar and the fade-in are pure CSS. The part I use every day The admin just went