Why?

Jokes apart, the real story is much simpler. I was just really bored.

I was sitting at my desk, staring at this tiny ESP32 microcontroller catching dust in the corner. I already run a full-blown homelab to self-host my stuff, so I figured, why not make this little guy carry some of the weight?

Around the same time, I had been reading up on Cloudflare Durable Objects and stateful edge computing. The tech seemed like absolute black magic, and I desperately wanted an excuse to play with it. It just clicked what if I tied them together?

Honestly? There is zero practical reason to host a website on hardware that most people use to blink LEDs or read temperature sensors. But as engineers, we don't always build things because they're sensible. We build them just for fun.

I wanted to see what happens when you push the absolute limits of a $4 chip. I wanted to prove to myself that engineering has no limits unless you accept them. And let's be real the look on people's faces when I tell them my personal site runs on an ESP32 is worth every single segmentation fault.