# Morten Vistisen's Personal Website

Last Updated: July 11, 2025
LLM.txt Version: 1.1

## Description
Personal blog and portfolio website by Morten Vistisen, a self-taught software engineer specializing in Go programming, distributed systems, and web development. The site serves as a knowledge-sharing platform for developers interested in full-stack Go development, entrepreneurship insights, and building production-grade web applications. Features comprehensive content management, newsletter system, and showcases technical projects including courses and open-source tools.

## Content Overview
- **Technical Blog Posts**: In-depth articles about Go programming, web development, system design, and software engineering best practices
- **Project Showcase**: Detailed presentations of personal projects including Golang Course, YouTube channel content, and the Grafto framework
- **Newsletter Archive**: Curated content for developers interested in Go and web development
- **Educational Resources**: Tutorials and practical guides for building production-grade applications
- **Entrepreneurship Content**: Insights on building side projects, business development, and developer entrepreneurship

## Key Pages
- `/` - Homepage featuring latest articles, personal bio, and social links
- `/about` - Personal background, expertise in Go/distributed systems, and professional journey
- `/projects` - Showcase of main projects: Golang Course, YouTube channel (mbv-labs), and Grafto framework
- `/posts/:articleSlug` - Individual blog posts with Markdown content, tags, and metadata
- `/newsletters` - Newsletter archive organized by publication year
- `/newsletters/:newsletterSlug` - Individual newsletter content pages
- `/login` - User authentication for admin dashboard access
- `/register` - User registration with email verification system
- `/dashboard` - Protected admin interface for content management
- `/dashboard/articles/new` - Article creation interface
- `/dashboard/articles/:id/edit` - Article editing interface
- `/dashboard/tags` - Tag management for content categorization
- `/dashboard/subscribers` - Newsletter subscriber management
- `/dashboard/newsletters` - Newsletter creation and management

## Content Topics and Expertise
- **Go Programming**: Echo framework, sqlc, type-safe database queries, error handling
- **Web Development**: Server-side rendering with templ, HTMX patterns, Alpine.js integration
- **Database Design**: PostgreSQL optimization, migration strategies, query performance
- **Authentication**: Session management, email verification, security best practices
- **Background Jobs**: River queue implementation, email processing patterns
- **Performance**: Otter cache strategies, ETag implementation, static asset optimization
- **Distributed Systems**: Scalable architecture patterns and system design principles
- **Software Engineering**: Best practices, code organization, testing strategies
- **Entrepreneurship**: Side project development, business insights, developer marketing

## Content Relationships
- Blog posts may reference projects (especially Grafto framework examples)
- Newsletter content curates and summarizes recent blog posts
- YouTube videos (mbv-labs) often complement written tutorials
- Code examples in posts frequently demonstrate Grafto framework patterns

## Example Queries/Use Cases
- "How to build a web application with Go and Echo framework"
- "Best practices for PostgreSQL with sqlc in Go"
- "Tutorial on implementing session-based authentication in Go"
- "Grafto framework documentation and getting started guide"
- "Building production-grade Go applications"
- "Setting up River queue for background jobs in Go"
- "Server-side rendering with templ in Go applications"

## Recommended Interaction Patterns
- For code examples: Reference posts with "go", "tutorial", or "implementation" tags
- For architecture decisions: Look for "distributed-systems" or "system-design" tagged content
- For practical guides: Check posts tagged with "tutorial" or "how-to"
- For framework information: Navigate to /projects for Grafto documentation

## API Endpoints
- `GET /api/v1/health` - Health check endpoint returning JSON status
- `GET /sitemap.xml` - Dynamic XML sitemap including all articles and static pages
- `GET /robots.txt` - Robots.txt with sitemap reference and crawling permissions
- `GET /llm.txt` - This file for AI agent context

## Structured Data
- **Schema.org markup**: Not currently implemented (improvement opportunity)
- **OpenGraph tags**: Yes - includes og:type, og:title, og:description, og:url, og:site_name, conditional og:image
- **Twitter Cards**: Yes - summary_large_image format with creator attribution (@mbvisti)
- **JSON-LD**: Not currently implemented
- **Meta tags**: Comprehensive implementation with titles, descriptions, canonical links
- **Sitemap**: Dynamic XML generation with article lastmod dates and monthly changefreq
- **Web App Manifest**: Basic PWA support with Android Chrome icons

## Data Formats Available
- **HTML**: Primary content format with semantic markup
- **XML**: Sitemap available at /sitemap.xml
- **JSON**: Health check endpoint provides JSON response
- **Plain Text**: This llm.txt file for AI context

## Syndication
- **Newsletter Subscription**: Available on homepage
- **Social Updates**: Follow @mbvisti on Twitter for new content announcements

## Update Frequency
- **Blog Posts**: Irregular publication schedule based on technical insights and project developments
- **Newsletter**: Periodic publication for subscriber updates
- **Project Information**: Updated as new projects are developed or existing ones evolve
- **Sitemap**: Dynamic generation with 1-week cache TTL
- **Static Assets**: 3-month browser cache with ETag support in production

## Contact Information
- **Social Media**: 
 - Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbvisti
 - GitHub: https://github.com/mbvisti
 - YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mbvlabs
 - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mortenvistisen
- **Business Entity**: mbvisti inc
- **Email**: Contact available through registration/authentication system

## Technical Implementation
- **Backend**: Go with Echo framework
- **Database**: PostgreSQL with sqlc for type-safe queries
- **Templates**: templ for server-side HTML rendering
- **Styling**: Tailwind CSS with DaisyUI components
- **Frontend Enhancement**: Alpine.js and HTMX for interactivity
- **Authentication**: Session-based with email verification
- **Background Jobs**: River queue system for email processing
- **Caching**: Otter in-memory cache for performance optimization

## Legal
- **Cookie Policy**: Session cookies for authentication only
- **Data Usage**: Standard web application data collection for functionality (sessions, user accounts, newsletter subscriptions)
- **Data Retention**: User accounts and newsletter subscriptions maintained until deletion requested

## AI Agent Guidelines
- **Rate Limiting**: 5 login attempts per IP address per 10 minutes (authentication endpoints only)
- **Preferred Crawl Times**: No specific restrictions
- **Caching Strategy**: Respect ETag and Cache-Control headers for static assets
- **Disallowed Actions**: 
 - Do not attempt to access /dashboard/* routes without proper authentication
 - Respect robots.txt guidelines
 - Avoid overwhelming the newsletter subscription system

## Semantic Context
- **"Grafto"**: Refers to both the Laravel-inspired Go framework/boilerplate and this website template
- **"mbv-labs"**: YouTube channel brand for technical content
- **"Go"**: Refers to the Go programming language (Golang)
- **"Distributed Systems"**: Focus area covering scalable architecture and system design
- **Domain Expertise**: Full-stack web development, particularly Go-based applications, PostgreSQL databases, and modern web technologies

## Known Improvement Areas
- Schema.org markup implementation planned
- JSON-LD structured data for articles
- Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages
- RSS/Atom feed for blog posts
- API endpoints for content retrieval

## Content Accessibility
- Public content accessible without authentication
- Admin features require user registration and email verification
- Newsletter subscription available with email verification system
- Responsive design for multiple device types

## Metadata
- LLM.txt Version: 1.0
- Last Major Update: January 6, 2025
- Changelog:
 - v1.0: Initial implementation with comprehensive site documentation