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vogle widgets
productionSelf-hosted API rendering live "language stack" and WakaTime cards for GitHub profiles — the thing that made my own README feel alive.
// impact
- Edge-served from Cloudflare with cached renders in ~30ms
- Zero runtime dependencies on the embedding page
- Powers the live activity cards on this very site
// overview
vogle widgets is a small self-hosted service that renders live developer cards — a language-stack
breakdown and a WakaTime summary — as standalone SVG. Any page can embed them with a single <img> tag,
and they re-render server-side on each request so the numbers are always current.
The interesting constraint was making rich, themeable cards that stay fast and dependency-free for the page that embeds them. The result is the same engine that draws the GitHub and WakaTime cards on this site.