diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 59dafdb..0000000
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-FROM python:3-alpine
-
-WORKDIR /site
-COPY . .
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
-
-CMD ["waitress-serve", "--port=8000", "app.app"]
diff --git a/app.sh b/app.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index aefae55..0000000
--- a/app.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-
-set -eu
-
-main() {
-    cd site
-    waitress-serve --port=8041 'app.app' &
-}
-
-main "$@"
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/benjae.nekoweb.org.gif b/assets/88x31s/benjae.nekoweb.org.gif
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rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/benjae.nekoweb.org.gif
rename to assets/88x31s/benjae.nekoweb.org.gif
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/freetards.xyz.gif b/assets/88x31s/freetards.xyz.gif
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/freetards.xyz.gif
rename to assets/88x31s/freetards.xyz.gif
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/fsky.io.webp b/assets/88x31s/fsky.io.webp
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/fsky.io.webp
rename to assets/88x31s/fsky.io.webp
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im-2.png b/assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im-2.png
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im-2.png
rename to assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im-2.png
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im.webp b/assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im.webp
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im.webp
rename to assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im.webp
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/purplebored.pl.gif b/assets/88x31s/purplebored.pl.gif
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/purplebored.pl.gif
rename to assets/88x31s/purplebored.pl.gif
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/squarebowl.club.gif b/assets/88x31s/squarebowl.club.gif
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/squarebowl.club.gif
rename to assets/88x31s/squarebowl.club.gif
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/synth.download.svg b/assets/88x31s/synth.download.svg
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/synth.download.svg
rename to assets/88x31s/synth.download.svg
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/telepath.im.png b/assets/88x31s/telepath.im.png
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/telepath.im.png
rename to assets/88x31s/telepath.im.png
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/voxel.fsky.io.webp b/assets/88x31s/voxel.fsky.io.webp
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/voxel.fsky.io.webp
rename to assets/88x31s/voxel.fsky.io.webp
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/88x31s/zayd.fsky.io.png b/assets/88x31s/zayd.fsky.io.png
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/88x31s/zayd.fsky.io.png
rename to assets/88x31s/zayd.fsky.io.png
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/broken/isekai.rocks.svg b/assets/broken/isekai.rocks.svg
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/broken/isekai.rocks.svg
rename to assets/broken/isekai.rocks.svg
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/index.css b/assets/index.css
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/index.css
rename to assets/index.css
diff --git a/site/templates/assets/index.css.old b/assets/index.css.old
similarity index 100%
rename from site/templates/assets/index.css.old
rename to assets/index.css.old
diff --git a/compose.yml b/compose.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c4b908..0000000
--- a/compose.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-services:
-  utils:
-    build:
-      dockerfile: Dockerfile
-    ports:
-      - "8041:8000" # Will listen on port 65193, change that number to change the port
-    restart: unless-stopped
-    volumes:
-      - ./site:/site
diff --git a/site/templates/index.j2 b/index.php
similarity index 50%
rename from site/templates/index.j2
rename to index.php
index a9fa288..5fa6499 100644
--- a/site/templates/index.j2
+++ b/index.php
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 
@@ -9,9 +8,30 @@
 </head>
 
 <body>
-  <p>
-    welcome, visitor <b>{{ visitor }}</b>!
-  </p>
+  <?php
+  $skip_exts = ['ico', 'png', 'jpg', 'css', 'js', 'webp', 'gif', 'svg', 'woff', 'woff2', 'ttf', 'eot', 'otf'];
+  $path = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
+  $ext = pathinfo($path, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
+  if (in_array($ext, $skip_exts)) {
+    return;
+  }
+  $filename = 'visitorCount.txt';
+  $fp = fopen($filename, 'r+');
+  if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX)) {
+    $count = (int) fread($fp, filesize($filename));
+    $count++;
+    rewind($fp);
+    fwrite($fp, (string) $count);
+    ftruncate($fp, ftell($fp));
+    fflush($fp);
+    flock($fp, LOCK_UN);
+  }
+
+  fclose($fp);
+
+  // display the count
+  echo "welcome, visitor number <strong>$count</strong>!";
+  ?>
   <p>
   <h1>Nyx Tutt</h1> is a <span class="hoverblur">trans</span>feminine
   <span class="hoverblur">robot-cat-girl-</span>thing.
@@ -86,9 +106,7 @@
   </ul>
   <h3>projects</h3>
   <p>
-    this one has a ton of unfinished projects (and some that haven't
-    even had any work done yet)! its current idea is a GTK4 music player
-    along with a federated genius alternative. it also has a few things,
+    this one has a ton of unfinished projects. it also has a few things,
     like skibidifetch (a fork of badapplefetch by
     <a href="https://ari.lt/">Ari</a>), that are smaller.
     it also made a collection of web-based tools using server-side rendering,
@@ -96,12 +114,45 @@
   </p>
   <h4>current project</h4>
   <p>
-    currently, it's making a web frontend for DICT (RFC2229) using Flask in the backend
-    and Tailwind CSS in the frontend.
+    learning Ruby and Rails
   </p>
   <h3>music</h3>
   <p>
-    {{ np }}
+    <?php
+    $apiRoot = 'https://api.listenbrainz.org';
+    $user = 'everypizza';
+
+    $nowPlayingString = '';
+    $nowPlaying = false;
+
+    try {
+      $response = file_get_contents($apiRoot . "/1/user/" . urlencode($user) . "/playing-now");
+      if ($response === false) {
+        throw new Exception("Failed to fetch");
+      }
+
+      $data = json_decode($response, true);
+
+      if (empty($data['payload']['listens'])) {
+        $nowPlayingString = "nothing is playing right now.";
+      } else {
+        $track = $data['payload']['listens'][0]['track_metadata']['track_name'];
+        $artist = $data['payload']['listens'][0]['track_metadata']['artist_name'];
+        $album = $data['payload']['listens'][0]['track_metadata']['release_name'];
+
+        $nowPlaying = true;
+        $nowPlayingString = "now playing for <b>" . htmlspecialchars($user) . "</b>: <b>" .
+          htmlspecialchars($track) . "</b> by <b>" .
+          htmlspecialchars($artist) . "</b> from <b>" .
+          htmlspecialchars($album) . "</b>";
+      }
+    } catch (Exception $e) {
+      $nowPlayingString = "Failed to reach API";
+    }
+
+    echo $nowPlayingString;
+    ?>
+
     <br>
     <small>
       data is from listenbrainz.
@@ -109,11 +160,36 @@
   </p>
   <h3>buttons</h3>
   <p>
-    {% for image, link in buttons %}
-    <a href="{{ link }}">
-      <img src="/static/{{ image }}" alt="{{ image }}" width="88" height="31">
+    <a href="https://benjae.nekoweb.org">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/benjae.nekoweb.org.gif" alt="Benjae" width="88" height="31">
     </a>
-    {% endfor %}
+    <a href="https://freetards.xyz">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/freetards.xyz.gif" alt="Freetards" width="88" height="31">
+    </a>
+    <a href="https://fsky.io">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/fsky.io.webp" alt="FSKY" width="88" height="31">
+    </a>
+    <a href="https://purplebored.pl">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/purplebored.pl.gif" alt="Purplebored" width="88" height="31">
+    </a>
+    <a href="https://squarebowl.club">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/squarebowl.club.gif" alt="PlateNet" width="88" height="31">
+    </a>
+    <a href="https://synth.download">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/synth.download.svg" alt="synth.download" width="88" height="31">
+    </a>
+    <a href="https://telepath.im">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/telepath.im.png" alt="Telepath" width="88" height="31">
+    </a>
+    <a href="https://voxel.fsky.io">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/voxel.fsky.io.webp" alt="voxel" width="88" height="31">
+    </a>
+    <a href="https://zayd.fsky.io">
+      <img src="/assets/88x31s/zayd.fsky.io.png" alt="voxel" width="88" height="31">
+    </a>
+    <br /><br />
+    <img src="/assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im.webp" alt="Nyx" width="88" height="31">
+    <img src="/assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im-2.png" alt="Nyx" width="88" height="31">
   </p>
 </body>
 
diff --git a/site/__pycache__/app.cpython-313.pyc b/site/__pycache__/app.cpython-313.pyc
deleted file mode 100644
index 326efbc..0000000
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diff --git a/site/app.py b/site/app.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d4171c..0000000
--- a/site/app.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-from flask import Flask, render_template, make_response, send_from_directory
-import requests
-import os
-
-apiRoot = "https://api.listenbrainz.org"
-user    = "everypizza"
-
-buttons = [
-        ("assets/88x31s/benjae.nekoweb.org.gif", "https://benjae.nekoweb.org"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/freetards.xyz.gif", "https://freetards.xyz"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/fsky.io.webp", "https://fsky.io"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/purplebored.pl.gif", "https://purplebored.pl"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/squarebowl.club.gif", "https://squarebowl.club"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/synth.download.svg", "https://synth.download"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/telepath.im.png", "https://telepath.im"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/voxel.fsky.io.webp", "https://voxel.fsky.io"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/zayd.fsky.io.png", "https://zayd.fsky.io"),
-        ]
-
-nyxbuttons = [
-        ("assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im.webp", "https://nyx.everypizza.im"),
-        ("assets/88x31s/nyx.everypizza.im-2.png", "https://nyx.everypizza.im"),
-        ]
-
-app = Flask(__name__)
-
-countFile = "visitorCount.txt"
-
-def get_visitor_count():
-    try:
-        with open(countFile, "r") as f:
-            return int(f.read())
-    except FileNotFoundError:
-        return 0
-
-def increment_visitor_count():
-    count = get_visitor_count()
-    count += 1
-    with open(countFile, "w") as f:
-        f.write(str(count))
-    return count
-
-@app.route('/')
-def index():
-    increment_visitor_count()
-    try:
-        data    = requests.get(apiRoot + "/1/user/" + user + "/playing-now")
-        if not data.json()['payload']['listens']:
-            nowPlaying = False
-            nowPlayingString = "nothing is playing right now."
-        else:
-            track            = data.json()['payload']['listens'][0]['track_metadata']['track_name']
-            artist           = data.json()['payload']['listens'][0]['track_metadata']['artist_name']
-            album            = data.json()['payload']['listens'][0]['track_metadata']['release_name']
-            nowPlayingString = f"now playing for <b>{user}</b>: <b>{track}</b> by <b>{artist}</b> from <b>{album}</b>"
-    except:
-        nowPlayingString = "Failed to reach API"
-
-    return render_template('index.j2', np=nowPlayingString, visitor=get_visitor_count(), buttons=buttons, nyxbuttons=nyxbuttons)
-
-@app.route('/assets/index.css')
-def indexStyle():
-    css = render_template('assets/index.css')
-    response = make_response(css)
-    response.mimetype = "text/css"
-    return response
-
-@app.route('/assets/particles.js')
-def particleJs():
-    js = render_template('assets/scripts/particles.js')
-    response = make_response(js)
-    response.mimetype = "text/javascript"
-    return response
-
-@app.route('/assets/birds.js')
-def birdJs():
-    js = render_template('assets/scripts/birds.js')
-    response = make_response(js)
-    response.mimetype = "text/javascript"
-    return response
-
-@app.route('/static/assets/88x31s/<path:filename>')
-def serve_dir(filename):
-    directory = 'templates/assets/88x31s'
-    return send_from_directory(directory, filename)
-
-@app.route('/todo')
-def todo():
-    return render_template('todo.html')
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8080)
diff --git a/site/templates/index.j2.old b/site/templates/index.j2.old
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index d8867ba..0000000
--- a/site/templates/index.j2.old
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,126 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html lang="en">
-  <head>
-    <title>
-      Nyx's personal site
-    </title>
-    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
-    <link href="assets/index.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
-  </head>
-
-  <body>
-    <center>
-      <p>
-      hello, visitor number <b>{{ visitor }}</b>! this one is glad to see you.
-      </p>
-      <br>
-      <small>
-        this counter doesn't use javascript, it's just a text file with a digit in
-        it that gets increased by 1 on every page load.
-      </small>
-    </center>
-    <h1>
-      Nyx Tutt
-    </h1>
-    <h2>
-      about it
-    </h2>
-    <p>
-    it is a cat-robot-girl-thing. it likes to speak about itself in the third person.
-    it likes linux and uses arch. it lives in texas, but hates it here. its favorite
-    color is pink.
-    </p>
-    <h2>
-      interests
-    </h2>
-    <p>
-    nyx has many interests. currently, it's been learning about networking, and the
-    C programming languages. it also likes open source software and protocols, like
-    XMPP. it also is a strong beliver in freedom of information, so it hosts things
-    like <a href="https://snowflake.torproject.org/">snowflake proxies</a>. it also
-    likes retro design, and it sometimes will write a blog post on something random.
-    theming is also fun for it.
-    </p>
-    <h2>
-      contact
-    </h2>
-    <p>
-    this one has a few forms of contact:<br>
-    </p>
-    <ul>
-      <li>
-        <a href="xmpp:nyx@everypizza.im">xmpp</a><br>
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <a href="matrix:u/n:everypizza.im">matrix</a><br>
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <a href="mailto:me@everypizza.im">email</a> (it has a pgp key over in <a href="https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=me%40everypizza.im">keys.openpgp.org</a>.)<br>
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <a href="https://sharkey.everypizza.im">fedi</a><br>
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        discord: everypizza
-      </li>
-    </ul>
-    <p>
-    please avoid using 2nd person pronouns when contacting it.
-    </p>
-    <h2>
-      links
-    </h2>
-    <ul>
-      <li>
-        <a href="https://listenbrainz.org/user/everypizza">listenbrainz</a>
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <a href="https://everypizza.im/">everypizza.im</a>
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <a href="https://git.everypizza.im/n/">git</a>
-      </li>
-    </ul>
-    <h2>
-      pages
-    </h2>
-    <ul>
-      <li>
-        <a href="todo">to-do list</a>
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <a href="https://blog.everypizza.im/">blog</a>
-      </li>
-    </ul>
-    <h2>
-      now playing
-    </h2>
-    <p>
-    {{ np }}
-    <br>
-    <small>
-      data is from listenbrainz.
-    </small>
-    </p>
-    <h2>
-      88x31s
-    </h2>
-    <p>
-    {% for image, link in buttons %}
-    <a href="{{ link }}">
-      <img src="/static/{{ image }}" alt="{{ image }}" width="88" height="31">
-    </a>
-    {% endfor %}
-    </p>
-    <h3>
-      this one's 88x31
-    </h3>
-    <p>
-    {% for image, link in nyxbuttons %}
-    <a href="{{ link }}">
-      <img src="/static/{{ image }}" alt="{{ image }}" width="88" height="31">
-    </a>
-    {% endfor %}
-    </p>
-  </body>
-</html>
diff --git a/site/visitorCount.sample.txt b/visitorCount.sample.txt
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rename from site/visitorCount.sample.txt
rename to visitorCount.sample.txt