feat: remove backlink

src/components/Backlink.astro

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
----
-import { ArrowLeft } from './icons';
-import Link from './Link.astro';
-
-interface Props {
-	class?: string;
-	backLink?: string;
-}
-
-const { backLink, class: className, ...props } = Astro.props;
----
-
-{
-	backLink && (
-		<Link
-			aria-label="Back to overview"
-			class:list={[
-				'col-span-2 col-start-1 h-clickarea w-clickarea items-center justify-center self-center justify-self-center transition-transform duration-500 ease-in-out hover:-translate-x-1 focus:-translate-x-1 md:col-span-1 print:hidden',
-				className,
-			]}
-			data-umami-event="Back to overview"
-			href={backLink}
-			{...props}
-		>
-			<button
-				aria-hidden="true"
-				class="flex h-clickarea w-clickarea cursor-pointer items-center justify-center border-none text-[0]"
-				type="button"
-				tabindex={-1}
-			>
-				<ArrowLeft aria-hidden="true" className="icon h-icon w-icon" />
-			</button>
-		</Link>
-	)
-}

src/components/PageHeader.astro

@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
 ---
-import Backlink from '../components/Backlink.astro';
 import MainNavigation from '../components/MainNavigation.astro';
 import ThemeToggle from '../components/ThemeToggle.astro';
 
 export interface Props {
-	backLink?: string;
 	class?: string;
 	navigation?: boolean;
 }
 
-const { backLink, class: className, navigation = true } = Astro.props;
+const { class: className, navigation = true } = Astro.props;
 ---
 
 <header
@@ -19,7 +17,6 @@ const { backLink, class: className, navigation = true } = Astro.props;
 	]}
 	role="banner"
 >
-	<Backlink backLink={backLink} />
 	{navigation && <MainNavigation />}
 	<ThemeToggle />
 </header>

src/layouts/AboutLayout.astro

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const schema = JSON.stringify({
 });
 ---
 
-<GridLayout title={frontmatter.title} grid="narrow" backLink="/" {...frontmatter}>
+<GridLayout title={frontmatter.title} grid="narrow" {...frontmatter}>
 	<PageTitle grid="narrow" slot="title" {...frontmatter}>
 		{frontmatter.title}
 	</PageTitle>

src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ import SearchModal from '../components/SearchModal.astro';
 import Scripts from '../components/Scripts.astro';
 
 export interface Props {
-	backLink?: string;
 	cover?: string;
 	description?: string;
 	footer?: boolean;
@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ export interface Props {
 }
 
 const {
-	backLink,
 	description,
 	footer = true,
 	header = true,
@@ -165,7 +163,7 @@ const webManifest = isProduction && {
 		class="flex grow flex-col bg-shibui-100 font-sans font-normal leading-relaxed text-shibui-950 common-ligatures dark:bg-shibui-900 dark:text-shibui-200/[0.87]"
 	>
 		<div class="flex h-screen grow flex-col">
-			{header && <PageHeader backLink={backLink} />}
+			{header && <PageHeader />}
 			<div class="page-content flex grow">
 				<main class="h-full w-full" {...pagefind}>
 					<slot />

src/layouts/GridLayout.astro

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import BaseLayout from './BaseLayout.astro';
 
 export interface Props {
-	backLink?: string;
 	class?: string;
 	cover?: string;
 	description?: string;
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ export interface Props {
 }
 
 const {
-	backLink,
 	class: className,
 	cover,
 	description,
@@ -35,7 +33,6 @@ const {
 ---
 
 <BaseLayout
-	backLink={backLink}
 	cover={cover}
 	description={description}
 	footer={footer}

src/pages/404.astro

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ const description = 'Page not found.';
 ---
 
 <GridLayout
-	backLink="/"
 	class="grid"
 	description={description}
 	grid="wide"

src/pages/[...slug].astro

@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ const schema = JSON.stringify({
 ---
 
 <GridLayout
-	backLink="/journal/"
 	cover={entry.data.cover}
 	description={description}
 	grid="fullsize"

src/pages/about.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ layout: ../layouts/AboutLayout.astro
 title: About
 updated: 2025-12-15
 description: I’m Stefan Imhoff, a Web Developer from Hamburg, Germany.
-backLink: /
 ---
 
 import { mapping } from "../mdx-components.ts";

src/pages/cv.astro

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ const description = 'The resume of Stefan Imhoff, Senior Software Engineer from
 ---
 
 <GridLayout
-	backLink="/"
 	class="grid"
 	description={description}
 	grid="wide"
@@ -93,19 +92,20 @@ const description = 'The resume of Stefan Imhoff, Senior Software Engineer from
 				</ListItem>
 				<ListItem>
 					<strong>Accelerated XING Design System adoption by 278%</strong> (cumulative growth
-					by Q3 2025), successfully deprecating legacy systems and reducing technical debt through
+					by Q3 2025), successfully deprecating legacy systems and reducing technical debt
-					aggressive migration strategies acknowledged as <q>technically demanding</q> successes.
+					through aggressive migration strategies acknowledged as <q
+						>technically demanding</q
+					> successes.
 				</ListItem>
 				<ListItem>
 					<strong>Spearheaded WCAG 2.2 AA compliance</strong> for the EU Accessibility Act,
-					conducting comprehensive audits on 50+ core components and implementing semantic standards,
+					conducting comprehensive audits on 50+ core components and implementing semantic
-					focus management, and high-contrast support.
+					standards, focus management, and high-contrast support.
 				</ListItem>
 				<ListItem>
-					<strong>Recognized as a <q>Role Model for AI Tooling</q></strong> by leadership, integrating
+					<strong>Recognized as a <q>Role Model for AI Tooling</q></strong> by leadership,
-					generative AI into daily workflows for debugging and documentation, and winning <strong
+					integrating generative AI into daily workflows for debugging and documentation, and
-						>2nd Place in the 2023 AI Hackweek</strong
+					winning <strong>2nd Place in the 2023 AI Hackweek</strong> for profile image generation.
-					> for profile image generation.
 				</ListItem>
 				<ListItem>
 					<strong>Engineered a scalable Dark Mode architecture</strong> by creating a dual-mode
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ const description = 'The resume of Stefan Imhoff, Senior Software Engineer from
 				</ListItem>
 				<ListItem>
 					<strong>Lead the technical upgrade to Styled Components</strong> and TypeScript modernization,
-					refactoring complex types and eliminating “snowflake” implementations to enhance build
+					refactoring complex types and eliminating “snowflake” implementations to enhance
-					performance and developer experience.
+					build performance and developer experience.
 				</ListItem>
 				<ListItem>
 					<strong>Mentored junior engineers and working students</strong> through dedicated
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ const description = 'The resume of Stefan Imhoff, Senior Software Engineer from
 			<Text>
 				<em
 					>Key contributor to high-traffic product verticals including Onboarding, SEO,
-					Mobile, and Jobs. Consistently rated <q>Expectations Clearly Exceeded</q> (2018, 2019).</em
+					Mobile, and Jobs. Consistently rated <q>Expectations Clearly Exceeded</q> (2018,
+					2019).</em
 				>
 			</Text>
 
@@ -177,9 +178,9 @@ const description = 'The resume of Stefan Imhoff, Senior Software Engineer from
 					Vitals.
 				</ListItem>
 				<ListItem>
-					<strong>Pioneered the first production usage of CSS Grid</strong> at XING during the
+					<strong>Pioneered the first production usage of CSS Grid</strong> at XING during
-					relaunch of Public Search, setting the standard for modern layout implementation across
+					the relaunch of Public Search, setting the standard for modern layout implementation
-					the company.
+					across the company.
 				</ListItem>
 			</UnorderedList>
 

src/pages/haiku.astro

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const description =
 	'This is an ever-growing collection of Haiku I have written. My Haiku reflect my own unique perspective on the world, and I hope they bring a bit of beauty and insight to the reader.';
 ---
 
-<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" backLink="/" class="grid" innerGrid>
+<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" class="grid" innerGrid>
 	<PageTitle grid="wide" innerGrid>Haiku</PageTitle>
 
 	<article

src/pages/haiku/[...slug].astro

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ const description = `Haiku ${entry.slug} in German and English.`;
 		<PageHeader
 			class="z-10 col-span-full row-start-1 bg-transparent !mbe-0 dark:bg-transparent"
 			navigation={false}
-			backLink="/haiku/"
 		/>
 		<div
 			class="min-[700px]:grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fit,_minmax(25rem,_1fr)] col-span-full row-start-1 row-end-3 grid w-full grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fit,_minmax(15rem,_1fr))] print:block"

src/pages/imprint.mdx

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ title: Imprint
 description: The imprint of this website.
 noindex: true
 nofollow: true
-backLink: /
 ---
 
 import { mapping } from "../mdx-components.ts";

src/pages/journal.astro

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const title = 'Journal';
 const description = 'I am writing essays about various topics in this Journal.';
 ---
 
-<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" backLink="/" innerGrid>
+<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" innerGrid>
 	<PageTitle grid="wide" innerGrid>Journal</PageTitle>
 
 	<article

src/pages/libertarianism.mdx

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ description: This site serves as an extensive collection of libertarian resource
 updated: 2025-06-13
 intro: Libertarianism is a political philosophy and movement that upholds liberty as a core principle.
 cover: /assets/images/cover/anarcho-capitalist-city.webp
-backLink: /
 ---
 
 import { mapping } from "../mdx-components.ts";

src/pages/life-rules.mdx

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ title: Life Rules
 updated: 2025-06-26
 description: My personal rules and principles for living a meaningful life. A guide to how I try to navigate life.
 intro: These are the rules, beliefs, and principles that guide my life.
-backLink: /
 ---
 
 import { mapping } from "../mdx-components.ts";

src/pages/now.mdx

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ title: Now
 updated: 2026-01-25
 description: This is my Now page, listing the things I currently do.
 intro: This is my Now page, a website with the content of what I am focused on at this point in my life.
-backLink: /
 ---
 
 import { mapping } from "../mdx-components.ts";

src/pages/projects.astro

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const description =
 	'I’m a Frontend Developer by profession. I worked in Design, Editing, and 3D Animation. These are  projects I created over the last years.';
 ---
 
-<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" class="grid" backLink="/" innerGrid>
+<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" class="grid" innerGrid>
 	<PageTitle grid="wide" innerGrid class="">Projects</PageTitle>
 
 	<article

src/pages/projects/[...slug].astro

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ const title = entry.data.title;
 const description = entry.data.intro || `The detail for project "${entry.data.title}"`;
 ---
 
-<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="narrow" innerGrid backLink="/projects/">
+<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="narrow" innerGrid>
 	<PageTitle slot="title">
 		{entry.data.title}
 	</PageTitle>

src/pages/tag.astro

@@ -15,14 +15,7 @@ const title = 'Tags';
 const description = 'This is a list of all the tags used in my journal.';
 ---
 
-<GridLayout
+<GridLayout class="grid" description={description} grid="wide" innerGrid title={title}>
-	backLink="/journal/"
-	class="grid"
-	description={description}
-	grid="wide"
-	innerGrid
-	title={title}
->
 	<PageTitle grid="wide" innerGrid>Tags</PageTitle>
 	<aside class="col-start-1 col-end-18 flex flex-wrap gap-y-3">
 		{uniqueTags.map((t) => <TagComponent href={`/tag/${t}/`}>{t}</TagComponent>)}

src/pages/tag/[tag].astro

@@ -45,14 +45,7 @@ const description = `These are all the articles categorized with the tag "${titl
 )}".`;
 ---
 
-<GridLayout
+<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" class="grid" innerGrid>
-	title={title}
-	description={description}
-	grid="wide"
-	class="grid"
-	innerGrid
-	backLink="/journal/"
->
 	<PageTitle slot="title" class="capitalize">
 		{tag}
 	</PageTitle>

src/pages/tools.mdx

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ updated: 2025-12-15
 description: I enjoy learning how other people work, what hardware, software, tools, and gadgets they use. On this page, I present my tools.
 intro: I enjoy learning how other people work, what hardware, software, tools, and gadgets they use. Here, I present my tools.
 cover: /assets/images/cover/home-office.webp
-backLink: /
 ---
 
 import { mapping } from "../mdx-components.ts";

src/pages/traditional-colors-of-japan.astro

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const description =
 	'I took the time and converted all colors in the book “Traditional Colors of Japan” by Nobyoshi Hamada into an ASE file free to download.';
 ---
 
-<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" backLink="/" class="grid" innerGrid>
+<GridLayout title={title} description={description} grid="wide" class="grid" innerGrid>
 	<PageTitle grid="wide" innerGrid>The Traditional Colors of&nbsp;Japan</PageTitle>
 
 	<article class="col-start-1 col-end-17 grid md:col-end-8 xl:content-center">