Minilith – A zero-dependency CMS stored inside a PNG file

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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 LifecycleInstead of

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