[Insight]
Hello world: how this site is built
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Table of Contents
This is a test post. It exists so the layout can be checked with real content before the first article goes live.
Why a blog
Social posts disappear in a week. A post here has a permanent URL, shows up in search, and is what a recruiter sees when they click the link in my profile.
What is here
The site runs on Astro with the Cactus theme, deployed on Cloudflare. Every post is a Markdown file:
---title: "Hello world"description: "One concrete sentence."publishDate: "2026-11-02"tags: ["meta"]---Push to main and the site rebuilds in a couple of minutes. No CMS, no database.
How posts get written
- Raw material goes into a private
notes/folder: README, numbers, screenshots, what broke. - Claude Code drafts the post from that material.
- I rewrite the parts that only I can write: why I chose this, what I would change.
A short table, because posts will have them:
| Step | Time |
|---|---|
| Material | 15 min |
| Draft | 10 min |
| Edit | 45 min |
Quotes render like this.
That is all this post needs to do.