diff --git a/web/src/components/index/recentPosts.astro b/web/src/components/index/recentPosts.astro
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+---
+import SummaryCard from "./summaryCard.astro";
+import { authPB } from "@utils/pocketbase";
+import { getFormattedDate } from "@utils/date";
+
+const pb = await authPB()
+
+const posts = await pb.collection('posts').getList(1, 3, {
+	sort: '-publishDate',
+    filter: 'published=true',
+})
+
+const postImages = await Promise.all( posts.items.map(p => pb.files.getURL(p, p.headerImage)) )
+
+---
+<SummaryCard
+    title="Recent Posts",
+    titleLink="/posts"
+>
+    <div class="flex flex-col md:flex-row gap-4 md:gap-4">
+        {
+            posts.items.map((p, i) => (
+            <div class="flex md:flex-col flex-row gap-3 md:gap-2 flex-1">
+                <time class="hidden md:block text-sm text-gray-500" datetime={p.publishDate}>{getFormattedDate(p.publishDate)}</time>
+                <a href={`/posts/${p.slug}`} class="shrink-0">
+                    <img class="w-24 h-24 md:w-full md:h-48 object-cover rounded-lg" src={postImages[i]} alt={p.title}/>
+                </a>
+
+                <div class="flex flex-col justify-start md:justify-start">
+                    <a href={`/posts/${p.slug}`} class="b1-no-underline line-clamp-2 md:line-clamp-none">
+                        {p.title}
+                    </a>
+                    <time class="md:hidden text-sm text-gray-500" datetime={p.publishDate}>{getFormattedDate(p.publishDate)}</time>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+            ))
+        }
+    </div>
+</SummaryCard>
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diff --git a/web/src/components/index/summaryCard.astro b/web/src/components/index/summaryCard.astro
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+---
+
+const { title, titleLink } = Astro.props
+
+---
+
+<div>
+    <a href={titleLink} rel="prefetch" class="b1-no-underline">
+            <h2 class="text-xl">{title}</h2>
+    </a>
+    <div class="flex flex-row gap-2">
+        <slot/>
+    </div>
+</div>
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diff --git a/web/src/pages/index.astro b/web/src/pages/index.astro
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--- a/web/src/pages/index.astro
+++ b/web/src/pages/index.astro
@@ -1,13 +1,21 @@
 ---
 import Base from "src/layout/Base.astro"
+import RecentPosts from "@components/index/recentPosts"
+
+export const prerender = false
+
 ---
 
 <Base>
-	<div slot="sidebar">
-		sidebar stuff
+	<div slot="sidebar" class="text-left">
+		<p>New website new me!</p> <br>
+		<p>Check out some of the photos and posts I've added recently, as well as the new design.</p><br>
+
+		<!-- todo: write this post lmfao -->
+		<p>If you're interested, I actually wrote a post about the new design and all that went into it.</p>
 	</div>
 
-	<div slot="content">
-		ya
+	<div slot="content" class="md:py-10">
+		<RecentPosts/>
 	</div>
 </Base>