diff --git a/archive.md b/archive.md
index eabb0b5..f6b0d98 100644
--- a/archive.md
+++ b/archive.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ you access archives and find:
 
 and make me very sad.
 
-> full disclosure, the only reason this page still exists is because of the netrunner joke. im pretty sure the front page shows every post anyway.
+> ~full disclosure, the only reason this page still exists is because of the netrunner joke. im pretty sure the front page shows every post anyway.~
+
+> turns out im not quite as stupid as i thought and worked out how monads work so i could limit front page to a few posts. this page is back in business baby!
 
 you also find all of this junk:
diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
index 5407511..5f69879 100644
--- a/default.nix
+++ b/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ mkDerivation {
   isLibrary = false;
   isExecutable = true;
   executableHaskellDepends = [ base binary filepath hakyll hakyll-favicon ];
-  librarySystemDepends = [ imagemagick ];
+  #executableSystemDepends = [ imagemagick ];
   homepage = "regularflolloping.com";
   description = "tA's blog";
   license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index ee6fe70..0878d8f 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ title: Home
 <p>please don't laugh at me i really like swatch internet time</p>
 
 <p>here are some recent (for a very liberal definition of the word) posts:</p>
+<p> - now only shows a few posts because im not dumb anymore - </p>
 
 <h2>"Recent" Posts</h2>
 $partial("templates/post-list.html")$
diff --git a/site.hs b/site.hs
index 2e34fdc..96adbc7 100644
--- a/site.hs
+++ b/site.hs
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ main = do
       match "index.html" $ do
          route idRoute
          compile $ do
-            posts <- recentFirst =<< loadAll "posts/*"
+            posts <- (return . (take 5))
+                     =<< recentFirst
+                     =<< loadAll "posts/*"
             let indexCtx =
                   listField "posts" postCtx (return posts) <> ctx
             getResourceBody