diff --git a/public/script.js b/public/script.js
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+// the only damn js needed in this site instead
+// of all the nuxt bs while we wait for static generation
+// to actually become a thing in nuxt 3
+const html = document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0];
+html.className = localStorage.theme ?? "light";
+// dark mode toggle
+function toggleDarkMode() {
+    const storageVars = ["dark-mode-toggle", "nuxt-color-mode", "theme"];
+    const currentTheme = html.className;
+    const newTheme = currentTheme === "light" ? "dark" : "light";
+    html.className = newTheme;
+    for (const v of storageVars) {
+        localStorage[v] = newTheme;
+    }
+}
+const darkToggle = document.getElementById("dark-toggle");
+darkToggle.checked = html.className === "dark";
+darkToggle.onclick = toggleDarkMode;
+// github commit fetcher
+// pulled from CommitStatBox.vue
+const FEED_URL = "https://api.github.com/users/potatoeggy/events";
+const results = (await (await fetch(FEED_URL)).json());
+const latestEvent = results.find((e) => e.type === "PushEvent");
+const latestCommit = latestEvent.payload.commits[0];
+const commitImg = document.getElementById("github-commit-img");
+const commitAnchor = document.getElementById("github-commit-a");
+commitImg.src = `https://opengraph.githubassets.com/hash/${latestEvent.repo.name}/commit/${latestCommit.sha}`;
+commitAnchor.href = `https://github.com/${latestEvent.repo.name}/commit/${latestCommit.sha}`;
+export {};
diff --git a/public/script.ts b/public/script.ts
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+// the only damn js needed in this site instead
+// of all the nuxt bs while we wait for static generation
+// to actually become a thing in nuxt 3
+
+import type { GithubPushEvent } from "../shared/github";
+
+const html = document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0];
+html.className = localStorage.theme ?? "light";
+
+// dark mode toggle
+function toggleDarkMode() {
+  const storageVars = ["dark-mode-toggle", "nuxt-color-mode", "theme"];
+
+  const currentTheme = html.className;
+
+  const newTheme = currentTheme === "light" ? "dark" : "light";
+  html.className = newTheme;
+  for (const v of storageVars) {
+    localStorage[v] = newTheme;
+  }
+}
+
+const darkToggle = document.getElementById("dark-toggle") as HTMLInputElement;
+darkToggle.checked = html.className === "dark";
+darkToggle.onclick = toggleDarkMode;
+
+// github commit fetcher
+// pulled from CommitStatBox.vue
+const FEED_URL = "https://api.github.com/users/potatoeggy/events";
+const results = (await (await fetch(FEED_URL)).json()) as GithubPushEvent[];
+const latestEvent = results.find(
+  (e) => e.type === "PushEvent"
+) as GithubPushEvent;
+const latestCommit = latestEvent.payload.commits[0];
+
+const commitImg = document.getElementById(
+  "github-commit-img"
+) as HTMLImageElement;
+const commitAnchor = document.getElementById(
+  "github-commit-a"
+) as HTMLAnchorElement;
+
+commitImg.src = `https://opengraph.githubassets.com/hash/${latestEvent.repo.name}/commit/${latestCommit.sha}`;
+commitAnchor.href = `https://github.com/${latestEvent.repo.name}/commit/${latestCommit.sha}`;
+
+// to make this an esm module for top-level await
+export {};