Tag: Astro

All the articles with the tag "Astro".

• 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.

• Adding a Links Section to My Blog

  25 Jan, 2026

  • 3 min read • Astro

  I built a links section to share interesting things I find around the web, with my own commentary.

• Automating My Blog Workflow with Bun

  24 Jan, 2026

  • 7 min read • bun

  How I killed the friction of writing by building a custom CLI generator for Astro using Bun.