This repo is a personal site built with Next.js. The core idea appears to be:

• activity pages for what Arthur is Working, Playing, Cooking, and Reading
• markdown-backed posts for each activity
• a small URL shortener that creates links like /saying/:id
• an experimental Rust backend deployed as a Vercel function

The git history suggests the project evolved in this order:

1. Build the personal site and post system.
2. Add a Thin Backend-powered URL shortener.
3. Add a Vercel Rust runtime and a minimal lambda as a backend experiment.

The Rust part was not yet connected to the shortener logic. It was left as a separate backend entrypoint.

• pages/ contains the Next.js routes.
• posts/ holds markdown content for each activity.
• pages/shortening-urls/index.tsx is the shortener UI.
• pages/saying/[id].tsx resolves short links through Thin Backend.
• api/user.rs is the Rust Vercel function.

Install JavaScript dependencies and run the site:

npm install
npm run dev

If you want the URL shortener to work, set:

NEXT_PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL=...

That value is used by thin-backend in pages/_app.tsx.

Run the Rust function checks from api/:

cargo test

• The current shortener still depends on Thin Backend for persistence and lookup.
• The Rust lambda is now useful as a health/info endpoint, but it is not yet the source of truth for short URLs.
• If you want to finish the migration, the next natural step would be moving short-link create/lookup logic behind Rust endpoints and retiring the direct frontend Thin Backend calls.