Hello World! I Rebuilt My Blog Again

A Personal Site, Not a Product Page#

The old versions of my site were always trying to explain me quickly.

There would be a headline, a list of technologies, a few carefully arranged projects, and some variation of the usual full-stack developer introduction. None of it was necessarily wrong, but it made the site feel finished before I had written anything on it.

That is not what I want from this version.

I want a small corner of the internet where I can keep notes, write about things I am building, and occasionally follow an idea that has nothing to do with software. It does not need a detailed content strategy. It just needs to be somewhere I am happy to publish.

The rough description is simple:

A developer’s personal corner of the internet — mostly software, occasionally everything else.

That leaves enough room for the site to change without requiring another identity crisis every six months.

Why Astro?#

I spend most of my working time building web applications, and I have worked with Angular for several years.

For a personal blog, though, I didn’t really want an application.

I wanted pages.

Astro fits that idea quite well. Most of this site is content, so static HTML is a sensible default. If a page needs something interactive later, I can add it without turning the whole site into a client-side application.

The basic model stays pleasantly small:

content goes in, HTML comes out.

There are plenty of good ways to build a blog. I chose Astro mostly because its defaults match what I want this site to be: simple, fast, and fairly boring.

I mean that as a compliment.

What I Plan to Write#

I do not have a publishing schedule or a long list of topics ready to go.

I will mostly write about software, things I am building, problems I have run into, and ideas that stayed in my head long enough to be worth writing down. Some posts will be technical. Some may not be.

A Small Beginning#

This is not a launch announcement or a promise that I will suddenly become consistent at blogging.

It is just the first note on a rebuilt site, and a reminder of what I wanted the site to be before I started adding too much to it.

For now, I am mostly happy to have a personal website that feels personal again.

Let’s see how long it takes before I rebuild it.