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+objectives
+
+/ - main blog page
+/admin - admin console
+will use passkeys for authentication (SimpleWebAuthn)
+/post/post-name - retrieves a specific post (permalink)
+
+api
+fetch - fetch a post or posts
+can specify specific post, last n, or n through main
+update - update a post
+delete - delete a post
+create - create a post
+register - registers a new user (passkey)
+login - logs in using passkey
+
+post data structure
+body - in BBcode? or HTML? probably just html for now
+author
+date
+name
+shortname
+permalink