Colophon

When building this site, my aim was simple: content over complexity. I wanted a workflow that stayed out of my way by prioritizing speed, easy maintenance, and a distraction-free writing experience.

Having used Astro for previous projects, it was the good choice. It is a powerful static site generator that lets me draft posts in Markdown using my preferred editor while it handles the heavy lifting of performance optimization behind the scenes and reusing templates allowing for me to update the design of the site without having to go through and change every single page.

My current stack of Astro, GitHub, and Cloudflare Pages is the ideal setup for a personal blog. The workflow is seamless. I craft my thoughts in Markdown, I commit the code to GitHub, and Cloudflare Pages automatically builds and pushes the site live. This setup allows me to spend less time acting as a DevOps engineer and more time doing what I actually enjoy: writing.

Stack

• Framework: Astro — static site generator
• Hosting: Cloudflare Pages — auto-deploys from main
• Styling: Plain CSS, no framework
• Fonts: Playfair Display & Lora via Google Fonts, Maple Mono self-hosted
• Code highlighting: rehype-pretty-code with Shiki
• Math: KaTeX

Last updated on 3/May/2026.