What is varharrie.github.io?

This repository is the source code for a personal developer blog that uses GitHub Issues as its content storage. The author built a custom website with React and TypeScript that reads posts from the Issues section of a GitHub repository and renders them as a readable blog. Using GitHub Issues as a content management system is an unconventional approach. When the blog author wants to publish a new post, they create a new Issue in the repository. The React frontend then fetches those issues via the GitHub API and displays them as blog articles. Labels applied to issues can serve as categories or tags. Comments on issues can become the comment thread below a post. The entire content workflow happens inside GitHub, without needing a separate database, hosting service, or CMS login. The site is a personal portfolio and blog, not a reusable blogging platform sold or distributed to others. The TypeScript and React codebase reflects one developer's specific preferences for design and structure. Using it for your own blog would require forking the repository and replacing all personal content, configuration, and visual styling. This approach appeals to developers who want a low-overhead personal blog, do not want to pay for a backend service, and are comfortable working entirely within GitHub. It trades flexibility for simplicity by relying on GitHub's infrastructure for content storage, versioning, and comment management. If you want to adapt this pattern for your own site, expect to invest time customizing the design, replacing the personal content, and adjusting the GitHub API calls to point to your own repository. The stars on this project suggest many developers found the concept interesting enough to save as a reference for their own blog setups.