Michael Aufreiter

On a mission to make the internet editable.

Building and

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

For your next website…

Skip the CMS

Define structure and layout in code with Svelte

Let clients edit text, images, and videos directly on the page — easily and safely, without breaking your design

This is Editable — launching in preview today

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Imagine someone hacks your website…

…but all they find is public data.

That’s the worst that could happen to your https://t.co/CGY3XmgcXj.

It doesn’t even store user credentials, or emails. Just pages that are public anyways.

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

What if Claude could update your website live, with no rebuild and nothing breaking in subtle ways?

https://t.co/pWmJytY9T2

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

With Editable 2.0 Preview 11, your website turns into an MCP server. Claude & friends can then write and update pages on your behalf.

In other words:
Prompt to code for layout changes (needs redeploy)
Prompt to data for content changes (updates live)

https://t.co/CGY3XmfF7L

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

@hecodesforme Ups sorry overlooked.

I'd keep the old name there for a long enough time and log a deprecation warning.

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Soon it'll be easier to build custom apps on top of Editable.

Add custom code through defined interfaces, while still keeping your copy in sync with upstream Editable.

There might still be conflicts to resolve, but they'll be less likely.

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

@Jacopokpp Editable builds on top of Svedit.

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

For your next website…

Skip the CMS

Define structure and layout in code with Svelte

Let clients edit text, images, and videos directly on the page — easily and safely, without breaking your design

This is Editable — launching in preview today

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

@mitsuhiko Michael Knight

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

@GetPingCron DB + assets are self-contained in a `data` folder, and you just back up that.

However additionally Litestream does continuous backup of the DB and you get just in time recovery. :)

Btw: An https://t.co/CGY3XmfF7L has the same "host forever" capabilities :)

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Launched https://t.co/d59WIxlmxK in 2021. Didn't manage to get it off the ground, but still proud of the concept and implementation.

Finally got to downscale it — aka host forever™.

Before: Postgres+S3+ImgX
Now: SQLite+asset files

10x faster. Costs down from 50€/m to 0€. 🎉

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Side note: Came up with an XML format to represent editable pages, because they are much easier to write for agents than the JSON version. Also for humans I guess. :D

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Don't like AI-generated content on a website. But turns out "translating" an existing page to other languages is a great use case for AI.

Soon every https://t.co/cTnBFEvLI3 will have their own MCP server for such tasks. And afterwards you can cleanup/fix bad text by hand easily.

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

@hecodesforme Credits to https://t.co/hC695byXp5 and their waiver of <5$ invoices

[Anton Zhiyanov @ohmypy]

You may have already heard, but the core SQLite team is working on Vec1 — native vector search (ANN) in SQLite.

It supports Euclidean (L2) and cosine distances, and uses SIMD for fast vector operations.

Vec1 is already feature-complete. The only things left are improving test coverage and making some optimizations.

https://t.co/Ymjx61sJQm

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Editable 2.0 Preview 10 is here

— Syntax highlighting for code blocks
— Editable banner for site-wide announcements
— Bug fixes

https://t.co/CGY3XmgcXj

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

@edo_lunardi It’s about the amount of care, not the amount of stuff.

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Wrote about how you can now translate your website right on the page (without a separate admin panel).

https://t.co/pJzetA4uKa

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

I think this might be the easiest way to translate website content. What do you think? 😊

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

@maietta Thank you! 🙏

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Coming soon to Svedit and Editable:

Copy and paste that keeps structure and formatting.

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

@maietta Editable does use remote functions already (with the experimental flag on). It's working just fine for me. I assume that they're still working on a lot of edge cases that don't surface in my very simple setup. I basically just use them instead of loaders, not mid-flight. :)

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Oh, and how could I forget to mention: We are running on SvelteKit 3 now.🔥

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Big one: Editable 2.0 Preview 9 is out

— Native support for multilingual sites
— Copy link to block (aka deep linking)
— Improve video processing (better quality, smaller file size)
— Preserve structure and formatting when pasting HTML from clipboard

https://t.co/prJi8z7mur

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

Oh boy! This is already looking promising...

Thanks to CSS Custom Highlights syntax highlighting can be on during editing, without messing with Svedit's selection mapping.

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

This weekend: Will try to sprinkle some TWINKLEPLOP into https://t.co/CGY3XmfF7L. 😁

[Michael Aufreiter @_mql]

This weekend: Will try to sprinkle some TWINKLEPLOP into https://t.co/CGY3XmfF7L. 😁

[pngwn @evilpingwin]

After about a year, on and off, I am veeeery happy to release TWINKLEPLOP, a syntax highlighter of tremendous power!

The speed of prism with the customisation of Shiki.