diff --git a/src/routes/(og-default)/+page.server.ts b/src/routes/(og-default)/+page.server.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b91f0d..0000000
--- a/src/routes/(og-default)/+page.server.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-// @ts-expect-error -- the `PageServerLoad` type import is broken for route groups
-import type { PageServerLoad } from '../$types'
-
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-assignment -- see line 1
-export const load = (() => {
-  // TODO: un-hardcode this
-  const birthDate = Date.UTC(2000, 11, 22)
-  const age = new Date(Date.now() - birthDate).getFullYear() - 1970
-
-  return { age }
-}) satisfies PageServerLoad
diff --git a/src/routes/(og-default)/+page.svelte b/src/routes/(og-default)/+page.svelte
index 6cf65e5..514cf76 100644
--- a/src/routes/(og-default)/+page.svelte
+++ b/src/routes/(og-default)/+page.svelte
@@ -1,20 +1,15 @@
 <script lang="ts">
   import Socials from '~/components/Socials.svelte'
   import WikiLink from '~/components/WikiLink.svelte'
-  import type { PageServerData } from './$types'
   import splashes_dot_txt from './splashes.json'
-  import { socials } from './info.json'
+  import { socials, birthday } from './info.json'
 
   import { page } from '$app/state'
   const {
     data: { siteMetadata },
   } = page
 
-  interface Props {
-    data: PageServerData
-  }
-
-  const { data }: Props = $props()
+  const age = new Date(Date.now() - Date.parse(birthday)).getFullYear() - 1970
 
   const buttonAStyle = 'display: inline-block'
   const buttonImgStyle =
@@ -61,7 +56,7 @@
         <a style="--delay: 0.2s" href="/art?img=ref">ref sheet</a>
       </div>
       <div class="blurb-right">
-        <span style="--delay: 0.15s">age {data.age}</span>
+        <span style="--delay: 0.15s">age {age}</span>
         <span style="--delay: 0.25s">
           <img class="nb-pride" src="/img/nb.svg" alt="non-binary pride flag" />
           they/them
@@ -76,9 +71,9 @@
 
     <h1>Hi!</h1>
     <p>
-      I'm <strong title="all-lowercase, please">deneb</strong>, a {data.age}-year
-      old <WikiLink page="maned wolf" /> from Austria, currently studying computer
-      science (BSc) in Innsbruck.
+      I'm <strong title="all-lowercase, please">deneb</strong>, a {age}-year old <WikiLink
+        page="maned wolf" /> from Austria, currently studying computer science (BSc)
+      in Innsbruck.
     </p>
   </section>
 
diff --git a/src/routes/(og-default)/about/+page.server.ts b/src/routes/(og-default)/about/+page.server.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 4828ba3..0000000
--- a/src/routes/(og-default)/about/+page.server.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-import type { PageServerLoad } from './$types'
-
-export const load = (() => {
-  const birthDate = Date.UTC(2000, 11, 22)
-
-  // TODO: un-hardcode this
-  const age = new Date(Date.now() - birthDate).getFullYear() - 1970
-
-  return { age }
-}) satisfies PageServerLoad
diff --git a/src/routes/(og-default)/about/+page.svelte b/src/routes/(og-default)/about/+page.svelte
index 14306d8..fedc3d2 100644
--- a/src/routes/(og-default)/about/+page.svelte
+++ b/src/routes/(og-default)/about/+page.svelte
@@ -1,16 +1,12 @@
 <script lang="ts">
   import WikiLink from '~/components/WikiLink.svelte'
-  import type { PageServerData } from './$types'
   import { page } from '$app/state'
+  import { birthday } from '../info.json'
   const {
     data: { siteMetadata },
   } = page
 
-  interface Props {
-    data: PageServerData
-  }
-
-  const { data }: Props = $props()
+  const age = new Date(Date.now() - Date.parse(birthday)).getFullYear() - 1970
 </script>
 
 <svelte:head>
@@ -28,10 +24,10 @@
     <p>
       My name (at least online) is deneb. My pronouns are they/them, and I am
       somewhere on the aromantic and asexual spectrum.<br />
-      I live in Austria — Innsbruck to be precise — I'm {data.age} years old, and
-      currently in my 7th and hopefully final semester studying computer science
-      (as of 2024-10). I am just working on my bachelor's thesis at this point, and
-      looking to become a <nobr>backend/systems</nobr> engineer in the near future.
+      I live in Austria — Innsbruck to be precise — I'm {age} years old, and currently
+      in my 7th and hopefully final semester studying computer science (as of 2024-10).
+      I am just working on my bachelor's thesis at this point, and looking to become
+      a <nobr>backend/systems</nobr> engineer in the near future.
     </p>
     <h4>floof</h4>
     <p>
diff --git a/src/routes/(og-default)/info.json b/src/routes/(og-default)/info.json
index 1820af1..feab498 100644
--- a/src/routes/(og-default)/info.json
+++ b/src/routes/(og-default)/info.json
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+  "birthday": "2000-12-22",
   "socials": [
     {
       "platform": "Fediverse",