Lawson Hart's Personal Websitehttps://lawsonhart.me/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/minecraft-server-setup/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/minecraft-server-setup/How I personally setup development based minecraft servers for ease of use.Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:21:00 GMThttps://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/blog-template/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/blog-template/A tour of my lawsonhart.me Astro codebase, what ships in the public template, and what stays site-only.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/comment-system/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/comment-system/Notes from building my own comments service, threads, replies, likes, moderation, and the browser security work around them.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/fivelaunch/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/fivelaunch/The technical side of a FiveM profile launcher: NTFS junctions, Windows file locks, a hash that had to match a JavaScript bug, and rewriting the whole thing from Electron to Tauri to go from a 170 MB binary down to 5.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/loife/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/loife/loife is the school dashboard I actually open before class. This is the UI work behind it: a swipe menu that fits a 375px phone, an add form cut from nine controls to four, and a grace period so ticking a box doesn't wipe the row.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/music-widget/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/music-widget/How I built a deeply themeable Last.fm now playing overlay with URL-based config, private profile support, and no server-side state.Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:05:00 GMThttps://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/music-widget-refactor/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/music-widget-refactor/How I rebuilt a Next.js music overlay into a Bun + Hono + SvelteKit monorepo, moved Last.fm calls into the browser to scale past 200 viewers, and swapped a fixed grid editor for free positioning.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/online-games/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/online-games/A technical comparison between the archived games-arch build and the newer games architecture.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/stream-overlay/https://lawsonhart.me/posts/projects/stream-overlay/How I built a self-hosted song request system with auth, moderation, queue control, and Spotify token management.Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:43:00 GMT