Hello my little Stardancers ✨

Devlog #4 for vensin.dev v2: the site started celebrating holidays without asking me first.

The whole look now follows the calendar. Spring gets sakura petals, summer gets fireflies, autumn has leaves tumbling down, winter gets pixel snow sitting on top of every window. Visitors can override it in the footer if they want a different season than the real one. But a few days of the year lock the look no matter what you pick: Halloween gets ghosts and a cobweb, New Year gets fireworks, my birthday gets confetti, Valentine’s gets pixel hearts, and Christmas gets a full sleigh with two reindeer flying across the sky plus presents falling between the snow. April Fools is its own chapter: the title flips upside down, the cursor turns into a rubber duck, buttons physically dodge your mouse once, and the date claims it’s March 32nd. I will not apologize for any of this.

The site can also talk back now. There’s a guestbook with spam filtering (links, slurs, keyboard mashing, a honeypot field bots can’t resist filling in) and a contact form that pings me directly on Discord with a button to approve or reject what came in, so I don’t have to open the admin panel just to read a message. And since all of this now lives in one SQLite file, I added nightly backups: a compressed copy gets made automatically, encrypted, and shipped off to an offsite file host, so a dead SD card can’t just erase the whole site.