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The previous version of this portfolio site, kept public as a historical reference rather than deleted once mljr-web replaced it. It already had a real Go backend (a `cmd/generate` job plus a `cmd/server` HTTP server) backing a SvelteKit frontend — not the from-scratch jump to a server-rendered architecture the current site represents, but an earlier iteration of the same "generate data, serve it" idea. It's a useful before/after marker for how the current site evolved: from a Go backend serving a separate client-rendered SvelteKit frontend to mljr-web's current architecture, where the same Go process renders HTML server-side via gomponents and Datastar handles reactivity without a client framework or build step in the request path.

graph TD
  Scrapers["backend scrapers
GitHub / LinkedIn / Strava"] --> Generate["cmd/generate"]
  Generate --> JSON[("data/generated/*.json")]
  JSON -->|raw.githubusercontent.com
auto-refresh every 4h| Server["cmd/server
DataLoader"]
  Server -->|REST API| Frontend["SvelteKit frontend"]

const (
	defaultRefreshInterval = 4 * time.Hour
	githubRawBaseURL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MrCodeEU/homepage/refs/heads/main/backend/data/generated"
)

// StartAutoRefresh starts a background goroutine that periodically fetches
// fresh data from the GitHub repository. This keeps the data up-to-date
// without requiring container restarts or external deployment triggers.
func (d *DataLoader) StartAutoRefresh(ctx context.Context) {
	if os.Getenv("DISABLE_AUTO_REFRESH") == "true" {
		log.Println("Auto-refresh disabled via DISABLE_AUTO_REFRESH=true")
		return
	}
	// ... ticker loop calling refresh() every refreshInterval ...
}