Minilith

About Minilith

Official blog for Minilith.

In the maker’s words

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 compress, secure, and render a site directly from the image. The Minilith Architectural Lifecycle Instead of a traditional backend and database, the flow looks like this: 1. Payload Creation: The editor data (JSON) is signed with a private key and compressed using the browser's native deflate algorithms.…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsWhy Your Next CMS Should Be an Image1 points0 comments17 days ago
• Hacker NewsShow HN: Minilith – A zero-dependency CMS stored inside a PNG file13 points5 comments29 days ago