Tag: astro

All the articles with the tag "astro".

• Redesigning my blog, part 4: the small stuff

  16 Feb, 2026

  • 6 min read • astro

  Dropdown navigation, a categorized tech stack, file organization, and auto-publishing. The polishing work nobody notices but everyone feels.

• Redesigning my blog, part 3: from stock theme to terminal blueprint

  15 Feb, 2026

  • 6 min read • astro

  The big visual overhaul. New fonts, new colors, terminal hero, data pipeline cards, two-rail layout, and all the bugs that came with it.

• Redesigning my blog, part 2: the blogroll

  14 Feb, 2026

  • 5 min read • astro

  I built a terminal-styled blogroll with ASCII art, pulsing RSS indicators, and OPML export. Blogrolls are back.

• Redesigning my blog, part 1: the audit

  13 Feb, 2026

  • 4 min read • astro

  Before changing anything visual, I spent time auditing my AstroPaper blog for security, SEO, accessibility, and performance issues. Here's what I found.

• Why I Left Zola's Simplicity for Astro's Power

  12 Feb, 2026

  • 4 min read • astro

  I moved from Hugo to Zola for simplicity. Then I moved to Astro for flexibility. Here's why I traded a Rust binary for a Node_modules folder.

• Over-Engineering a Clap Button, Again

  9 Feb, 2026

  • 4 min read • astro

  The clap button worked, but KV had a race condition. I migrated the backend to Cloudflare D1 for atomic writes and hashed IPs.

• Auto-Publishing Scheduled Posts with GitHub Actions

  8 Feb, 2026

  • 8 min read • astro

  My Astro blog already supports scheduled posts, but I still had to push to master to actually publish them. Here's how I fixed that with a cron job and a tiny Node script.

• Bringing Interactivity to a Static Blog: The Clap Button

  4 Feb, 2026

  • 4 min read • astro

  Static sites are fast but lonely. I added a Medium-style Clap button using Astro, Preact, and Cloudflare Workers to fix that.