Personal Website
A fast, content-first home for projects, technical writing, and personal notes.
Overview
A minimal personal website designed to remain useful and maintainable for years. It brings projects, writing, a resume, and current interests into one quiet, text-first experience.
Problem
Work and ideas were spread across services that were useful for sharing but poor as a durable personal archive. The site needed to be easy to publish, quick to load, and independent of a hosted content management system.
Approach
The project is built in small milestones. Static pages established the visual foundation first, followed by Markdown content collections for repeatable publishing.
Architecture
Astro renders the site to static HTML. Shared layouts and components handle the site shell, while typed content collections validate writing and project metadata during the build.
Implementation
The interface uses semantic HTML, CSS variables, and a small set of reusable styles. TypeScript runs in strict mode, and formatting, linting, diagnostics, and production builds are part of the normal workflow.
Impact
The result is a focused home for long-form work with very little client-side JavaScript and a straightforward path to Cloudflare Pages.
Lessons Learned
Strong constraints reduce both design noise and maintenance cost. Building the content model only after the core layout also made the required abstractions much clearer.