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Ivan Dankov
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Hello World, I Guess

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I’ve been meaning to build a personal site for years. The kind of thing where you tell yourself “I’ll do it this weekend” and then three years pass. Well, here it is.

Why Bother?

Mostly because I wanted a place to put things that isn’t LinkedIn. Don’t get me wrong — LinkedIn serves its purpose — but it’s not exactly the place for writing about what you’re actually interested in, or showing off projects without it feeling like a corporate press release.

This site is for:

  • Projects I’ve built or am building — personal stuff, open source, things I find interesting
  • Blog posts about things I’m learning, breaking, or have opinions about
  • A contact point that isn’t a social media DM

The Stack

This site runs on Astro with Tailwind CSS v4, deployed on Vercel. Content is written in MDX. Search is handled by Pagefind. The contact form hits a Vercel serverless function that sends via Gmail SMTP — no third-party form services.

The whole thing is open source if you want to poke around: github.com/Seven7een/ivandankov.com

What to Expect

Irregular posts about security, infrastructure, automation, and whatever else I’m tinkering with. No schedule, no promises, no SEO-optimised listicles. Just things I find worth writing about.