New blog design

4.2.2025

Hello, it’s new design day Another fun thing is that I’ve also updated the backend, from using Gatsby to Astro! I’m hoping this fixes a few of the old issues I had on my blog, such as pages being cached inconsistently If you see anything funky going on with the site for now though, it’s probably from this upgrade!

With other technical improvements, I refactored a bunch of my old components and feel much better about how much more efficient they (hopefully) are now! Looking at your old code is certainly a fright… There’s still a few issues here and there, but I think most of the site should be working.

Working with Astro has been really fascinating - it’s similar, but also very different from Gatsby. I’ll make another post eventually about a bit more backend notes because I find that web stuff like this sometimes doesn’t have easy-to-find solutions once you take a step outside of the guide

The old design here was not really inspired by anything but wanting a clean and uncluttered layout. As you know, I love to clutter up my posts by yappin so I wanted the layout to be simpler to compensate

The new layout is a little ‘old web’ styled since I love the simplicity of the web during those days I did make a few more artistic choices such as stylizing headers in a way where they are not as readable, which is not usually a choice I make, but I’ll try it out as something different.

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