diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml
index 8f367e6..1a61063 100644
--- a/config.toml
+++ b/config.toml
@@ -29,3 +29,8 @@ theme = "liquorice"
     [markup.goldmark]
         [markup.goldmark.renderer]
         unsafe = true
+
+[security]
+    [security.funcs]
+	# first 2 vars are things hugo has built in and I'm keeping to avoid breakage
+	getenv = ['^HUGO_', '^CI$', "COMMENTS_BACKEND"]
diff --git a/layouts/_default/single.html b/layouts/_default/single.html
index 7f24c24..a315a60 100644
--- a/layouts/_default/single.html
+++ b/layouts/_default/single.html
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
         </div>
 
         {{ partial "author.html" .}}
+	{{ partial "comments.html" . }}
         <div class="row li-pagination">
             <div class="eight columns">
                 <div class="li-pagination-previous">
diff --git a/layouts/partials/comments.html b/layouts/partials/comments.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64b0d6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/partials/comments.html
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+    <noscript>
+        you need to enable javascript to view comments(or be a wizard)
+    </noscript>
+    {{ cond (not (eq (os.Getenv "COMMENTS_BACKEND") "")) (safeHTML (printf "<div hx-get='/comments/%s' hx-target='this' hx-trigger='load' hx-swap='outerHTML'></div>" .File.Path)) ""}}
+    
diff --git a/layouts/partials/head.html b/layouts/partials/head.html
index d8aa0b8..b1a80a0 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/head.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/head.html
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}/css/liquorice.css" />
         {{ cond (eq .Page.Kind "page") (safeHTML (printf "<link rel='stylesheet' href='%s/css/single.css'>" .Site.BaseURL)) "" }}
 	<script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@1.9.5" integrity="sha384-xcuj3WpfgjlKF+FXhSQFQ0ZNr39ln+hwjN3npfM9VBnUskLolQAcN80McRIVOPuO" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
+	<script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx.org/dist/ext/json-enc.js"></script>
         <link rel="icon" href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}/img/icon.png" />
         <meta property="og:title" content="{{ .Title }}"/>
         <meta property="og:type" content="website"/>