11-08-22

Hello, everyone.

This is my personal site I have recently re-built from Next.js to Astro 🚀

This is intended to be a collection of random ideas and things I find interesting or the process in building side projects in anything from Typescript to Rust 🦀.

But mainly as a very ridiculous and impractical solution to a simple, simple concept of a notepad for myself to remember my thoughts and ideas.

Or it could be nothing because I struggle to find the time or a way to remember to use this.

Quick thoughts on Astro

• Tooling is fantastic including the create-astro CLI and the file structure and in-built router
• From the entire site being 245kb with Next.js (no this site had no reason to be that big ever) - to under 38kb
• Documentation is great; community sourced info and packages outside of it much more difficult to google (“how to X astro build?” or how to X astro js? because astro by itself never works)
• Super easy to get started and the markdown integration is so beyond simple vs something like Next & MDX it’s incredible
• Scoped component styling is really great especially now that I have discovered the lang=“scss” option.