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 # Chirp
 
-This is a stub.
+Chirp is a proof of concept for a simple micro-blogging platform, developed with no prior knowledge and no research into this topic to explore the problem space intuitively.
+This is the third iteration, which is written in the [Zig programming language](https://ziglang.org), using a [custom HTTP handler based on epoll](https://git.psch.dev/zighttp) and a [custom abstraction over the LMDB key-value-store](https://git.psch.dev/ziglmdb), making [LMDB](https://www.symas.com/mdb) the only external dependency.
+It works without JavaScript by generating all HTML dynamically and with no dynamic allocations on the server.
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+Features:
+- Registration and login of users
+- Creating posts
+- Up/downvoting
+- Comments, quote-posts
+- Following users and dynamically generated timelines
+- Creating and managing lists of posts and custom feeds