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 # burning.moe
 
-Code for the burning.moe homepage
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+Code for the [burning.moe](https://burning.moe) homepage
+
+## technologies used
+- [go](https://go.dev)
+  - [chi](https://github.com/go-chi/chi)
+  - [cleanenv](https://github.com/ilyakaznacheev/cleanenv)
+  - [mage](https://github.com/magefile/mage)
+
+## why?
+
+why not?
+
+Improving my go skills, and learning to write web apps in go, was a
+good opportunity to rewrite my ancient and basic website while having
+it functionally not change at all.