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-# rusty-bever
+# The Rusty Bever
 
-Source code for the software powering my personal website, the Rusty Bever.
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+The Rusty Bever refers to my personal website & the software that powers it.
+It's built using a Rocket web server as a RESTful backend & a frontend
+consisting of Astro & Svelte.
+
+## Motivation
+
+I was largely inspired by [Jan-Lukas Else](https://jlelse.dev/)'s own site,
+called GoBlog. I find his blog & site to be very interesting, and I just wanted
+to create one of my own!
+
+## Goals
+
+My goal is to create my own blogging platform, with lots of little extra
+features that I'll just add whenever I get a new idea.
+
+- [ ] Blogging
+- [ ] Microblogging (aka my own Twitter)
+- [ ] RSS feeds for everything
+- [ ] About me page/resume
+- [ ] Auto-updating list of my Miniflux subscriptions
+- [ ] Description of my my server/desktop/laptop setups
+- [ ] Maybe a CLI client that I can use to write my blog posts
+- ...