About

hi i'm mike

i cook sometimes

FAQ

Q: are you actually a professional cook at all

A: no, unless you count briefly working at the college dining hall making omelettes on a Mongolian grill

Q: what's the tech stack for this website

A: MEVN stack (MongoDB, Express, Vanilla JS for some reason, Node), plus EJS templates to make building the pages easier

This technically isn't part of the tech stack but I also use Dillinger to convert my recipes' markdown into html, which makes my life a lot easier

Boring stuff for nerds

Changelog

Version: 1.05 (March 26 2026)

• The "tags" page has been rebranded to the "All recipes" page.
• All Recipes page now shows all recipes by default
• When a tag is selected, the all recipes page makes it more clear what is selected and how many results there are (i.e. "Showing results with tags Breakfast,Korean (1)")

Version: 1.04 (March 20 2026)

• Genre icons on homepage (for breakfast, desserts, etc.) are now functional
• Changes to image sizes on recipe cards and homepage
• Minor tweaks to recipe card styling

Version: 1.03 (March 20 2026)

• Fixed the spacing in the recipe link tiles between the image and the margins of the tile
• Minor fixes to some dead links
• Added a new section to the homepage where you can click an icon based on meal type.
• Formatting changes to homepage
• Streamlined the process of styling tags

Version: 1.02 (March 17 2026)

• Added favicon (it's Gerald!)
• Page titles now actually make sense (before it was just 'recipes' for everything)
• Added the changelog to this page lol, arbitrarily decided this is version 1.02 because it's the third version (I think?) after the site officially went live
• Added a header image + darkmode version (and a little animation when you hover over it)
• Fixed issue where some links in recipes wouldn't be underlined
• Added darkmode version of navbar

Version: 1.01 (March 16 2026)

• Updated the post schema in mongoDB. There's now support for multiple recipe cards within a page (good for if we want a vegan and non-vegan version of a recipe, for example). Also can support multiple sections of ingredients now (for red velvet donuts, one section for batter, one section for glaze)