Hello
This is the first post on the new site. I rebuilt it in Astro so I can write without fighting toolchains every time.
How this works
I hate Jekyll. That’s all.
Markdown in 60 seconds
The full reference is at commonmark.org, but nearly every post needs only this much:
## A heading
A paragraph with a [link](https://example.com), some **bold** text,
and a little `inline code`.
- a list item
- another list item
> A blockquote, for when someone said it better.That covers maybe 95% of writing. The rest you learn when you need it.
Photos
Drop the image file next to the post (or in a folder beside it) and reference it with a relative path:
Astro automatically optimizes it — resizes, compresses, converts to WebP — at build time. A 4MB iPhone photo becomes a ~200KB image without me doing anything. No CDN, no service, no extra step.
What’s next
A handful of pieces I’ve been meaning to write: notes on architecture, on keeping things small, and on the gap between what enterprise software is and what it could be.