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The vibe check

Another year, another site refresh. Though only six months after my last (delayed) refresh. I felt pretty bogged down by my last iteration. Maybe it has something to do with me not vibing with using Next.js for primarily static sites. Or it could be the FOMO of not using Astro.

I scratched the itch a little by building a starter kit for Astro, but I knew that I wanted to rebuild my personal site sooner than later.

What were the goals

I had a few goals in mind when I booted up a new repo:

• Make it simple: I wanted it to be reminiscent of sites of old. White background, default link colors, dial up modem sounds. I wanted to make it as simple as possible. And this would play a role in the other two goals.
• Make it fast: I wanted it to load as fast as possible. Static, system fonts, as few styles as possible to prevent bloat. Astro makes this part easy.
• Make it easy to maintain: Maintaining our own sites isn’t always fun, so why make the dev part any harder than it needs to be. With content collections I am able to maintain past and future content more easily.

What’s coming

I have a few fun ideas for the future of this site. I think I want to keep this version around for longer than I typically do so I can invest a little more. Even still, in the long term I want to keep the original goals in mind by keeping things simple, fast, and maintainable.

Grax y nos vemos. 👋