Why bother with a personal site
It starts of purely as a personal project. My filter on life. My window of expression. Social media comes and goes. But a personal site like this is unabigoulsy mine.
- A place to think out loud in more than a paragraph.
- A home for projects that would otherwise rot in a private repo.
- A slow, low-stakes writing habit
The best personal sites feel like a tidy desk: a few good tools, nothing you have to fight to find.
The stack
We truly live in magical times, where I can describe what I want to a chat window and poof it shows up.
Well, then it seems the real problem shifts towards knowing what to want and how to get there.
The stack, briefly, explained by AI
I kept the toolchain deliberately boring. Astro builds static HTML, MDX lets me drop the occasional component into a post, and the whole thing ships as files a CDN can serve without thinking.
More soon. For now: hello, world. Again.